who among you

[ademoglu]

Hello,

- Who among you is/are coming?

I searched some pages to see which one is OK to use - is or are - after 'who among you' and saw 'is' used. (I cannot find those sites now.) :-(

Could you tell me which one is OK?

Thanks.

 

[tzfujimino]

I found this:
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/...-word-who-always-singular?p=727667#post727667

 

[Matthew Wai]

I found the following, but I am not a teacher.

'nterrogative who .and what as subjects normally take a singular verb even when the speaker has reason to believe that more than one person or entity is involved: Who is making all that noise?'── quoted from http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/30443/which-is-the-correct-question-who-has-vs-who-have

 

[MikeNewYork]

I would use "is".

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think 'among you' is an adjectival prepositional phrase here, which can't be the subject of a verb, but I am not a teacher.

 

[Tdol]

I would too, but in this particular sentence, are doesn't sound as weird as it does when the question is just Who ____ coming?