<p>You don’t even really need to know what “monitor” refers to…committees and restrictions are both plurals lol</p>
<p>Just disregard the prepositional phrases and read the sentence. This is a very tricky question though…at first glance.</p>
<p>prima facie, nm -_-</p>
<p>MrPrez- But I thought “one” was the subject, but I guess not. </p>
<p>qwerty- But isn’t the part Im confused on inside a prep phrase?</p>
<p>nbafan - Nah one is not the subject. (one of) the communities that monitor</p>
<p>monitor describes the communities.</p>
<p>Let me put it in your context.
One of the best closers who play in the NBA is Kobe Bryant.</p>
<p>NOT</p>
<p>One of the best closers who plays in the NBA is Kobe Bryant</p>
<p>Prez in the post before about Kobe, what would be the subject of that sentence? One?..so wouldn’t it be the second? cause [[of the best closers]] is the PP. I’m confused now ?!</p>
<p>I think I get it now thanks to all this stuff people wrote. </p>
<p>qwerty -If you pair up subject/verb, it goes as One-is and closers-play. I think that makes more sense now.</p>
<p>This is not a subject verb agreement problem. It is about relative pronouns: who, whom, which, and that. Relative pronouns should come directly after the word they modify. Example: She is the girl who dances. “who” is taking the place of “girl”. OR…That is the car which I bought. “which” is taking the place of “car”.</p>
<p>In the sentence from the PR book:
Restrictions on one of the committees that monitors corporate waste disposal were revoked, allowing the committee to levy fines on violators of the disposal laws. </p>
<p>The relative pronoun “that” is taking the place of the word “committees” since it is the noun that comes directly before the relative pronoun. So…the committees monitor. </p>
<p>Similarly:
She is one of the girls who is/are going to Europe this summer.
The answer must be “are” because who is referring back to girls.</p>
<p>Just to clarify…it is a problem about agreement…but the agreement involves the subject and verb of a dependent clause (adj. clause) and you need to look at the relative pronoun and its antecedent to figure it out.</p>