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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 18 years ago
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"The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members.."

0The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in a manner that does not constitute a corrupt conduct. 02br
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0 Hi 02br 02br 01font 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in a manner that does not constitute a corrupt conduct. 02font 02br 02br 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct themselves in a manner that does not constitute corrupt conduct. 02br 02br 01font 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in manners that do not constitute corrupt conduct.

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  • 0 Hi 02br 02br 01font 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in a manner that does not constitute a corrupt conduct.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct themselves in a manner that does not constitute corrupt conduct.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in manners that do not constitute corrupt conduct.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct themselves in manners that do not constitute corrupt conduct.
  • 02br 02br 01font 02font 02br 01h3 01font 00Please comment on these two sentences.
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0 Hi 02br
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01font00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct in a manner that does not constitute a corrupt conduct. 02font02br
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00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring members of the public sector conduct themselves in a manner that does not constitute corrupt conduct. 02
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0Both are faulty. This is grammatically correct:02br
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01i00The ICAC takes on the role of ensuring [that] members of the public sector 01b00conduct themselves in a manner that does not constitute corrupt conduct02b00.02i02br
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00However, the ugly repetition of "conduct" makes this undesirable, so I'd rephrase it.
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0 Hi Mr. Wordy,02br
00I'd like to agree with you but from where I stand, your01b00"that"02b00 make it incorrect with "01b00ensuring"02b00 in the context. What role does ICAC take? To ensure members of public sector to conduct themselves in a manner....02br
00It would be fine If the sentence was "The ICAC's role is to ensure 0
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0Well, if you search Google Books for "role of ensuring that" (with the quotes) you'll find plenty of instances of this form of wording from published authors. 02br
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00"That" is not allowed when "ensure" takes a simple object rather than a clause. For example, "The inspector's role is to ensure 01del00that02del00 the quality of the goods."02b
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