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NONE, NONE OF

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None

is a pronoun. It is more emphatic than not any:

The weather forecast predicted showers all afternoon but there were 

none.

(more emphatic than: The weather forecast predicted showers all afternoon but

there weren’t any.)

None of

is a quantifier and is used with pronouns and noun phrases introduced by

a determiner:

None of us had much money in those days.

None of my dogs are ever allowed upstairs.

None of the book is about phonetics.

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With plural noun phrases, not one of is a more emphatic alternative to none of:

Not one of these children has been to a dentist in the last five years.