... followed by gerunds—with a change of meaning See Understanding and Using English Grammar, Third Edition, Chart 14-8 As mentioned in an earlier chapter in this Teacher’s Guide, the text is planting acorns ... gerunds, such as risk, resist, deny, delay (See Understanding and Using English Grammar, Third Edition, Chart 14 -9, for a longer list of verbs followed by gerunds.) Here, however, the focus is on only ... attention to problems of number when one of and some of are part of the subject of a sentence The pattern with one of seems to be a particular source of errors It is a useful pattern Perhaps...