Breakdown of В связи с ошибкой они вынуждены менять стратегию.
они
they
ошибка
mistake
менять
to change, to exchange
стратегия
strategy
Questions & Answers about В связи с ошибкой они вынуждены менять стратегию.
Why does вынуждены end in -ы instead of looking like a standard verb?
Вынуждены isn't a verb; it's a short-form adjective meaning "forced" or "compelled." Short adjectives act as the main predicate of the sentence and must agree with the subject in gender and number. Since они is plural, we use the plural form вынуждены.
How would you change this sentence to say they were forced or will be forced to change strategy?
Because вынуждены is an adjective, it doesn't conjugate for tense on its own. To talk about the past or future, you simply add the corresponding form of the verb быть (to be) right before it. For the past, it becomes они были вынуждены, and for the future, они будут вынуждены.
Why use в связи с instead of a simpler phrase like из-за for "due to"?
В связи с (literally "in connection with") belongs to a more formal, professional register than из-за (because of). It fits perfectly here since discussing a "strategy" usually implies a business, political, or otherwise formal context. Notice that the preposition с requires the following noun to be in the instrumental case, giving us ошибкой.
Why does the sentence use the imperfective verb менять rather than a perfective verb like изменить?