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The community garden has become a popular gathering spot for local residents during the summer months. Volunteers weed the flower beds, water the vegetables, and the compost pile is turned by them every Saturday morning. Thanks to their efforts, the garden continues to thrive.

Which choice most effectively avoids an unnecessary shift in construction and maintains a consistent grammatical structure in the sentence?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. turn the compost pileCevap
  3. C
    turned the compost pile
  4. D
    the compost pile is turned

Cevap

The correct option is 'turn the compost pile' because it maintains the active-voice verb form in present tense to match 'weed' and 'water', preserving parallel structure and avoiding an unnecessary shift in construction.
The correct choice is the active-voice phrase 'turn the compost pile' because it maintains parallelism with the preceding active-voice verbs 'weed' and 'water'. All three verbs share the same subject, 'Volunteers', and are expressed in the present tense, avoiding an unnecessary shift in construction.

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1
Analyze the sentence's structure and identify the list of activities performed by the volunteers.
The activities are 'weed the flower beds', 'water the vegetables', and the underlined portion.
Understanding the context of the list helps determine the grammatical pattern that must be maintained.
2
Examine the verbs in the first two items of the list to identify their voice, tense, and subject.
The verbs 'weed' and 'water' are in the active voice, present tense, and share 'Volunteers' as their subject.
To avoid a shift in construction, the final item in the list must match these grammatical properties.
3
Evaluate the choices to find the one that continues the active voice and present tense without shifting the subject.
The option 'turn the compost pile' uses an active-voice, present-tense verb that logically shares the subject 'Volunteers'.
This maintains parallel structure and prevents a shift in voice or tense.

Anahtar Kavram

Avoiding shifts in voice and tense in parallel constructions
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Shifts in Construction

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