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by corin_ 4855 days ago
Anybody would understand you, but there is a difference. Using the word "none" doesn't help explain, so change that to "me".

"200 students are better than me" means that there are 200 all of which are better than me, it's not grouping them together, just counting them. "200 students is better than me" would mean that as a collective they are better than me, but I might well be better than each of them individually.

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This is the kind of thing I want an infographic for.

Someone should design a small set, each in monochrome, to fit on A4 / Letter size paper, with simple explanation and example sentences.

I really don't understand what would be on this infographic you want.