one of plural noun

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A "mission-critical" modifier falls between. This modifier is often an Of phrase that defines the noun. The less important modifier refers to the noun plus the first modifier.

Right: He had a way OF DODGING OPPONENTSthat impressed the scouts.

Here, the "mission-critical" modifier of dodging opponents defines the noun way. Without this modifier, the noun way is almost meaningless. In turn, the modifier that impressed the scouts modifies the entire noun phrase a way of dodging opponents. It helps that the relative pronoun that cannot refer to human opponents, according to the GMAT. Moreover, the reversed order is nonsensical:

Wrong: He had a way that impressed the scoutsOF DODGING OPPONENTS.

Of course, try to sidestep the issue altogether by rephrasing the sentence.

Best: His wayOF DODGING OPPONENTS impressed the scouts.

Other examples include parts of a whole.

Right: An ice sheet covers 80 percent OF THE SURFACEOF GREENLAND, an area roughly the size of Alaska.

The modifier an area roughly the size of Alaska modifies not the noun Greenland, but rather the whole phrase 80 percent of the surface of Greenland. The "mission-critical" modifier of the surface of Greenland is required next to 80 percent in order to define that percentage.

下面是题目
A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer's Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

答案:E

我的理解 Jean Toomer's Cane has been called one of the three best novels everwritten by a Black American.
ever written by a Black American 修饰整个 one of the three best novels.
这句话的意思是： JT's Cane 是有史以来最好三本小说中的一本，而且是被一个美国黑人写的。潜台词是：另外两本小说是不是有美国黑人写的，不确定。

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Biologists believe that they have found one of the substances that tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain quiescent in the earliest phases of an embryo’s development.
(A) tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain
(B) tell individual genes both at which time they should become active or should remain
(C) tells individual genes both when to become active or remain
(D) tells individual genes both when to become active or when to remain
(E) will tell an individual gene both about when it should become active and remain

答案：A
这里就没有the only one of the, 而是 one of the, 所以就是用复数。

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16.Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that still has a sizable wolf population, and where this predator remains the archenemy of cattle and sheep.B
(A) that still has a sizable wolf population, and where
(B) that still has a sizable wolf population, where
(C) that still has a sizable population of wolves, and where
(D) where the population of wolves is still sizable;
(E) where there is still a sizable population of wolves and where

答案：E
但是这题没有考到这个知识点。

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With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

语法点：
1.one of the plural noun+WHO/THAT+ plural verb
2.the only one of the plural noun+WHO/THAT+singular verb
3.one of the plural noun 后面没有who/that就是用单数。比如： One of my classmates practises so hard on GMAT.

with its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

我读不懂这个句子开头部分。

因为开发7.5英亩海岸的计划，Cleveland成了，位于五大湖，依靠水源提升城市生活质量，依靠水源吸引投资的众多Communities中的一个。

这就话的意思是：五大湖有很多communities 依靠水源做......, 而cleveland 依靠它的海岸开发计划成为了这样一个community.

with 开头表示因果。