I'm trying to study for the SAT and they have these action verbs on it, HELP?

Question

I'm working out of the official SAT handbook and they want us to rewrite semtences that they give us. Help please.

"Workers unanimously approved the manager's decision to bring about an end to the practice of overtime assignments rather than scheduling the right number of workers in the first place."

and

Under the management of the new owners of the store the store is designed to serve the basic needs of the majority of the people in the neighborhood.

could you explain what you did and why you did it?

thanks

no this is not cheating i'm STUDYING for the SATs not taking them now

Answer 1

In the first sentence, "bring about an end" isn't an action verb--"to end" would be.

Workers unanimously approved the manager's decision to eliminate overtime assignments by scheduling the right number of workers in the first place.




The second sentence needs an ACTIVE verb, not an "action" verb. In an active sentence, the grammatical subect is also the doer of the action.

(eg active: I kicked him.
vs. passive: He was kicked by me.)

"He was kicked by me" may be fine, but if you use too many passives you end up with bad sentences like the ones you have there.

The new owners are managing the store so that it meets the basic needs of most of the neighbourhood.

Answer 2

You have not mentioned which section of the test the sentences are from but these should be of help.

"The workers unanimously approved the manager's decision to end the practice of overtime assignments and replace it with the scheduling of the right number of workers."

The problem with the sentence is that of parallelism. I have fixed it by using parallel constructions in the predicate.Look at "...to end "the practice of overtime assignments" and "the scheduling of the right number of workers".

"The store, under a new management, is designed to serve the basic needs of the majority of people in the neighborhood."

The problem here is two-fold. [1] misplaced modifier, and [2] redundancy. I have fixed these by placing the modifier in the right position and by making the sentence concise.

I hope I have been of help, good luck

Answer 3

isnt that cheating?