Need help with a sentence The Council pledged to continue following developments in order to organize as efficiently as possible its efforts in combating terrorism, reaffirmed the importance of its resolutions and statements on terrorism, and stressed the need for implementing them. 1）What does "continue following developments" exactly mean? Cuz in my mother tongue, "following development" is not quite something that can be "continued" 2)in order to "...organize as efficiently as possible its efforts in combating terrorism, reaffirmed the importance of its resolutions and statements on terrorism, and stressed the need for implementing them." Are these three parts parallel ? I mean, are these the three thing the Council need to achieve? If so, why put -ed at the end of the two verbs reaffirm(ed) &stress(ed) but not the first one "organize"?? Thanks a lot

Anyone plz....is there anything wrong with the sentences? Many thanks! ^-^ 1.Max Black, who maintains that the working of metaphor should be viewed as interplay between its focus and its frame, articulated the Interaction Theory of Metaphor, which laid the groundwork for Lakoff and his colleagues. 2.In the sentence Richard is a lion, Richard is regarded as the focus, namely, the subject of the sentence, and the rest part of it is taken as the frame. Diffident from pervious frameworks, Interaction Theory operates on a sentence basis rather than on individual word.