<p>Gerund ends in -ing.</p>
<p>gerund is like making a verb a noun
like to swim is a verb
but in I like swimming
swimming is now a gerund</p>
<p>"Poor pitching, along with injuries and defensive lapses, are among the problems that plague last year's championship team"</p>
<p>Why is not there an error for "plague?" The sentence is referring to the past.</p>
<p>i just reviewed that. haha.</p>
<p>Bring My Post Up</p>
<p>lee, plague should be plagued</p>
<p>just check out sparknotes and you are all set.</p>
<p>it does not have to be plagued because it does not have to refer the past</p>
<p>the team won last year, but now we are in the present, where injuries plague them</p>
<p>hahah you got this list from the kaplan book!</p>
<p>I think he copied this from the Princeton Review Manual book,the list looks awefully familiar</p>
<p>and not to mention the examples -_-;;</p>
<ol>
<li>Wrong word (affect/effect, emigrate/immigrate, eminent/imminent)</li>
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<p>I have never faced such type of errors on real tests</p>
<p>“don’t use no double negatives…” haha :D</p>
<p>Notice the last point. He has made a double negative error himself.</p>