[Video] Q38: No change or there were steps taken by levine and rocco to ensure or levine and rocco took steps to ensure or levine and rocco's steps ensured

Explanation for Question 38 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat

Question number 38 in determining how working time and responsibilities 2 would be divided, steps were taken by Levine and Rocco to ensure that the 3 arrangement provided fluidity and consistency for the employees whom they jointly managed. 4 So in this sentence, we see they're sort of a passive construction steps 5 were taken by Levine and Rocco. So we see the subject here is the 6 steps, but we always want to make our subject, 7 the entity that's actually doing the action for more active construction. 8 So in this case, we would prefer to make our subject living in Rocco 9 because they are the ones who actually are doing the action. 10 It would make more sense to say that Levine and Rocco took steps then 11 to say that steps were taken by them. 12 Um, because at first construction is more active and the second is more passive. 13 We always want to insert the subject as the entity. 14 That's actually doing the action rather than the entity that's having the action done 15 to it. So for that reason, 16 our no change option is out choice. B says there were steps taken by 17 Levine and Rocco kind of a same similar issue. 18 So we can eliminate it as well. Answer choice C lamina Rocco took steps 19 to ensure this is going to be our best answer. 20 We have our subject and then our verb, 21 which is the most active way to construct a sentence. 22 And it's the most clear to the reader? The issue with answer choice D 23 is that again, it doesn't really have an active verb. 24 It says their steps insured, but it doesn't say that they took those steps 25 or this, they actually did anything. 26 It doesn't focus on the action taking by our main subjects here at Levine 27 and Rocco. So for that reason, 28 not quite as good of an answer choice as choice C. 29 Yes, we do care about the effect of the steps that they took. 30 But we want to introduce those steps were taken first. 31 We want to say they took those steps too. 32 So answer choice C is our best answer here.