Is Some singular or plural?

Does some take a singular or plural verb?

The answer depends.

Indefinite pronouns such as some can be singular or plural depending what they are referring to. With countable nouns, some requires a plural verb while with uncountable nouns, some requires a singular verb:

(1) Some books are missing.
(2) Some rice was stolen.

It doesn't matter whether some is modified by a prepositional phrase:

(3) Some of the books are missing.
(4) Some of the rice was stolen.

In the screenshot below, some refers to information, which is uncountable. The correct verb is has:

ChannelNewsAsia - 11 January 2013