Fill in the blank with the correct word as given in the bracket.
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1. Tide and time waits for no man.
2. Bread and butter is what he eats in the morning.
3. "Everyone has or does not have this new book?"
4. I think one of us is lying.
5. There was much sorrow at the funeral.
6. Ten years is known as a decade.
7. Five kilometers is a long distance to jog.
8. Peter, with his two sons, goes to church every Sunday.
9. Either your brother or you have to be here to collect it.
10. Either John or his parents are going to visit her at the hospital.
11. Neither my brother nor I am ready to go.
12. Neither the father nor the mother is at home.
13. Only twenty percent of the families here own a washing machine.
14. A quarter of the city's population lives in slums.
15. Is anyone listening to me?
16. None of the factories in the new zone is/are in operation yet. (Both is and are can be used with none.)
17. Please wait. None of us has/have finished eating.(Both has and have can be used with none.)
18. There is no one here waiting to see you.
19. Five days of climbing is too tiring for us.
20. There was darkness everywhere because of the power cut.