<p>Question from the blue book:
Some workers who resent the supervisor's authority would probably feel uncomfortable if they were to acquite the independence that they demand.
The anwser was no error.. They demand (choice D) is what I picked... Anyone know why?</p>
<p>Also:</p>
<p>Given her strong sense of social justice, Burns vehemently protested over her party's failure to support a tax decrease for senior citizens. </p>
<p>I thought you could use protested over? What should it be instead?</p>
<p>And another:</p>
<p>Writing aout people whose circumstances were deplorable, Dickens used the novel to protest social conditions in Victorian England.
That was also no error... Why isn't there something wrong with "Writing about.." ? Shouldn't it be Written about?</p>
<p>'They demand' is correct because it refers to the workers and is conjugated correctly.</p>
<p>'Protested over' should be 'protested against'. You can't protest over something... you have to protest against something.</p>
<p>'Writing about' is correct because it's saying what Dickens is doing which is 'writing about people...' . Changing it to 'written about' makes it describe the book. However, the word 'Dickens' follows the dangling modifer so it can't be about the book.</p>
<p>silvermoon...correct me if i am wrong... but they demand refer's to the supervisor. The supervisor (singular), should instead be he/she demands.</p>
<p>Hmm... I thought that the workers were the ones that were demanding independence from the supervisor's authority. </p>
<p>'Some workers who resent the supervisor's authority would probably feel uncomfortable if they were to acquire the independence that he demands.'</p>
<p>The above sentence doesn't make sense because if you add 'he demands' into the sentence... it makes it sounds like the supervisor is demanding independce when in reality he's the one being authoritative.</p>