Discrepancy between OG and Manhattan on the use of SANAMs

[Nauman]

While describing the use of SANAM (some, all, none, any, most) Manhattan SC guide says that: "Some of the documents were.......", while SC Question No. 17 of the OG-11 uses: "None of the attempts...explains....." construction.

What’s the clear rule?

Nauman

[aarr]

OG - 11 question:
None of the attempts to specify [verb] the causes of crime explains....

'of' is followed by attempts and attempts agrees in number with specify. Doesn't it?

Manhattan:
Some of the documents were...
Some of the money was...

./r

[JonathanSchneider]

This is tricky, but there is a direct rule. You will find it on page 30 of the current SC guide. For the SANAM pronouns, you do need to look to the "of" constructions to determine singular/plural. For example, "some of the money was stolen" vs. "some of the documents were stolen."