SANAM Pronouns- Please clarify

[kameshsubramanian]

I came across 2 examples- one in which Sanam rule is applied and one in which it isnt. Could someone clarify, if there are some general guidelines that could be used.

Case 1: None of my friends are coming from the party. In this case the rule of applying the thing in the of clause following the subject is applied.

Case 2: One of the many accomplishments of Archimedes was the invention of ...

For case 2- shouldn't it be were and not was

Similarly the below is a question from manhattan.

According to the international investment memorandum recently signed in Geneva, France is one of the 4 European nations planning to provide fewer tax incentives for foreign investment in production of heavy industrial machinery.

(a) planning to provide fewer
(b) planning to provide less
(c) planning on providing fewer
(d) which is planning on providing fewer
(e) that is planning to provide less

The original sentence uses the correct idiomatic construction "planning to provide." Additionally, the appropriate quantity modifier "fewer" is used to refer to the countable noun "incentives."

Choice D: The singular verb "is planning" does not agree with the plural subject "nations

So based on the Archimedes sentence isnt the subject France and thereby singuar

[salman30]

I came across 2 examples- one in which Sanam rule is applied and one in which it isnt. Could someone clarify, if there are some general guidelines that could be used.

Case 1: None of my friends are coming from the party. In this case the rule of applying the thing in the of clause following the subject is applied.

Case 2: One of the many accomplishments of Archimedes was the invention of ...

For case 2- shouldn't it be were and not was

Similarly the below is a question from manhattan.

According to the international investment memorandum recently signed in Geneva, France is one of the 4 European nations planning to provide fewer tax incentives for foreign investment in production of heavy industrial machinery.

(a) planning to provide fewer
(b) planning to provide less
(c) planning on providing fewer
(d) which is planning on providing fewer
(e) that is planning to provide less

The original sentence uses the correct idiomatic construction "planning to provide." Additionally, the appropriate quantity modifier "fewer" is used to refer to the countable noun "incentives."

Choice D: The singular verb "is planning" does not agree with the plural subject "nations

So based on the Archimedes sentence isnt the subject France and thereby singuar

Hello - for Case 2 specifically, SANAM pronouns are SOME, ANY, NONE, ALL, MORE/MOST (and these has to come before "of"). However, case 2 is not the case of SANAM pronouns anyway as its starting with one of many..... Case 1 is fine though.

[tim]

Thanks, Salman. As for the original post, there was a question about the multiple choice problem. You have to look at what the word "planning" is modifying. The "which" (overlooking the fact that in this context "which" cannot be used without a comma) means the word "planning" MUST refer to the word right before it - "nations"..