If any of these people "knows" or "know" the meaning?

[tufguy]

If any of these people "knows" or "know" the meaning?

Please check.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please give us a complete sentence to consider. You have posted a fragment.

 

[tufguy]

Please give us a complete sentence to consider. You have posted a fragment.

If any of these people knows the meaning of this word then why are they silent?

 

[teechar]

If any of these people know the meaning of this word, then why are they silent?

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[tufguy]

Use 'know' in that sentence.

But I have a question why "Know" not "Knows" because we are talking about one "Any of these"?

 

[emsr2d2]

As Piscean has made clear, "any of" and "anyone" don't take the same form of the verb.

Does anyone know the answer?
Do any of these people know the answer?

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