LittleDan wrote:
*Neither the kids nor Michael (likes/like) to go to the park now that they use Wikipedia.
Plural beats singular, so "like". (I'm not positive that every authority would agree, but this is what I've always known.)
*One in six people (uses/use) a peer-to-peer network.
The noun is "one", with "people" merely part of an adjectival preposition, so "uses". (I'm positive about this one.)
It's not enough to know the right answer; you must know why! ^_^
(I put my guesses in bold). My mom and I can't definitively tell which one is right. For these, it is a matter of which grammarian you talk to. If you insist on perfect grammar, something like this may cause excessive back-and fourth editing, maybe even an edit war. I'm just thinking worst-case-scenario.
Indeed, should such an edit war come up, we'd need to remember not to sweat the small stuff. Even the species capitalisation is important primarily because it affects naming conventions.
-- Toby