The phrase "alerting one of" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used when notifying someone about a specific issue or situation, but the phrase is incomplete and lacks clarity.
Example: "I am alerting one of the team members about the upcoming deadline."
Alternatives: "notifying one of" or "informing one of".
And he had a way of alerting one to one's ignorance in the gentlest of ways.
When the Bureau was arranging an escape, it alerted one of its East Berlin contacts, who notified a certain number of students on the waiting list that they should be in the vicinity of a specified corner at a set time, usually around midnight.
Fortunately a concerned citizen spotted him and alerted one of the event's stewards, who immediately called the police.
A reader of The Washington Post spotted it and alerted one of the paper's blogs, The Fix, which posted it before the red-faced McCain campaign removed it.
The secret was that it alerted one of the most powerful, but usually all too politically dormant forces in the land - the women's magazines - to what was being written.
When I alerted one of his aides to the story, she seemed bewildered, saying, "He's been in meetings with the President all day!" Later that afternoon, Trump denied the story, calling it "fake news," and saying that McMaster was doing "a great job".
The occurrence of sterile pyuria should also alert one to the possibility of acid fast bacilli infection, of which the polymerase chain reaction is both a sensitive and a specific test to look for both typical and atypical mycobacterium.
But I suggest that hearing this justification for a potential new military action should alert one to the shallowness of the thinking behind it.
Therefore, adult-onset asthma that increases the severity despite the adequate therapy should alert one to the possibility of a central obstructing lesion [ 1].
Perhaps our assumption of fair sampling was wrong, or perhaps some strange, unknown mechanism really did exploit the freedom-of-choice loophole, in effect alerting one receiving station of what was about to occur at the other.
