<p>the President has designated Senator Frank as one of the Cogressmen who are going to attend the conference on nucleur waste disposal.</p>
<p>the sentence above is correct !! butt i wander how ?? shouldn't it be ( as one of the Cogressmen who IS ) bcz who refers to one and "of the congressmen" is prep. phrase </p>
<p>HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE:
she is the only one of the applicants who are qualified.</p>
<p>here this sentence is INCORRECT in the explanation it says who refers to one and the verb should be singular IS...</p>
<p>soo.... iam reaally confused about these type of questions and what is the differnce between these two quetsions above.
I WOULD REALLY BE GRATEFUL IF SOMEONE HELPED :)</p>
<p>You have to be able to identify the subject and object correctly. And need to be able to distinguish between them. </p>
<p>In the first, the subject is congressmen and object is senator frank. </p>
<p>In the s</p>
<p>For the second, she is the subject. If the sentence were she is one of the applicants who are qualified, then it would be correct. But if you look closely, it says she is the ONLY ONE of the applicants who are qualified. You cant use “are”. She is qualifed. Not she are qualified</p>
<p>Basically, the first is talking about a number of people as multiple congressmen are attending, and the second is talking about one person as she is the only qualified person as indicated in sentence.</p>
<p>Sorry for the triple post, but the submit button is right above my keyboard on my phone and I tend to miss the key sometimes :p</p>
<p>ummmm…okaay i got 70% of the idea 
ANYONE ELSE ??</p>
<p>Although writing was never my strong suite but perhaps a 720 does give me views at least some authority. I shall try to explain this problem to the best of my ability.
Notice how in the first sentence i.e. ‘The President has designated Senator Frank as one of the Congressmen who are going to attend the conference on nuclear waste disposal.’ the congressmen ARE attending the conference and Frank is one of them. Frank is not the subject for the the latter half of the original sentence and thus, there is an ‘ARE’. As for the second sentence i.e ‘She is the only one of the applicants who are qualified.’, SHE is the only one who IS qualified while the applicants are NOT qualified. As SHE remains the subject, there shall be no ‘ARE’ and there will in fact be an ‘IS’.
Basically, just try to identify the subject of the sentence.
I hope this helped.</p>
<p>Easy bro, in example #2 “she is the ONLY one of the applicants who are qualified.” When you use the word “ONLY” it needs to be followed by a singular verb: in this case “is” instead of the plural “are”. </p>
<p>But in the other example things are different because Senator Frank is one of the Congressmen that ARE going to the conference… because unlike example #2 he is not the ONLY one that is going…</p>
<p>However things can change if: the President designated Senator Frank as THE ONLY congressMAN who IS going to attend the conference on nucleur waste disposal</p>
<p>ummm…okay that sounds reaaly clear SALAMI809 but are u sure that only is always followeed by a singular verb ??</p>
<p>yes bro… @smartyfox</p>
<p>Q1) Production delays (A:were notoriously) difficult obstacles to overcome until the company adopted new computer technology that works more effective than the old technology. </p>
<p>can someone help please!! i thought were notoriously was wrong becasue it happend before the company adopted new computer tech. and also thought that when until or since is used with verb it should be used with past participles? thankxxx!!</p>
<p>One effective strategy to find these grammatical errors is to look at these sentences and attempt to remove extraneous detail that is not relevant to the sentence grammatically, simplify the sentence. For example: “she is the only one of the applicants who are qualified.” this can be reduced to “she is one who are qualified” which is obviously incorrect.
“the President has designated Senator Frank as one of the Cogressmen who are going to attend the conference on nucleur waste disposal.” Are you sure you transcribed this correctly? Or is this from a third party practice test? I don’t think the SAT would use such a malformed sentence.</p>