The report recommended that the hospital should eliminate

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The basic essence of the present subjunctive mood verb is that we have to use the bare infinitive in the subordinate clause, and not any other tense form, whatever the number of the subject or the tense of the main clause.

Eliminate is a bare infinitive (the proposition to has been removed, so it is called bare infinitive.)

Eliminates or consolidates are present tense singular verbs. This is incorrect.

Subjunctive mood sentences in GMAT SC -- A basic pamphlet on the usage of the subjunctive mood in SC (both past and present)
Subjunctive mood sentences are special types of sentences, which violate the normal rules that are applied to a subject-verb agreement in number and tense but are still considered grammatical.

There are subjunctive mood uses in the present tense and the past tense. In the present subjunctive, the verb is always in the bare infinitive, even if the subject is plural and the tense is past or future. Sentences in which one would use such verbs as is, are, was, were or will be, should use the bare infinitive verb - be -, in the case of the subjunctive mood. The subjunctive mood is used when the verb indicates a desire, intention, command, recommendation, request, resolution, or advice. It is also used along with such words as advisable, better, desirable, and directive, essential, fitting, imperative, important, necessary, urge, urgent and vital. The very important thing here is that the word - that -will always accompany such subjunctive mood sentences and the verb of the relative sentences will always be the base form called 'the bare infinitive' or the root form of the verb

1. To pay = infinitive. 2, Pay- he pay, they pay, it pay, etc are bare infinitives

1. Wrong: The public are demanding that a crematorium should be constructed at the traffic junction.
Correct: The public are demanding that a crematorium be constructed at the traffic junction.

2. Incorrect: The Committee recommended that the manager is dismissed.
Correct: The Committee recommended that the manager be dismissed

3. Incorrect: The court directed that the owner of the car to pay the accident victim a sum of ten thousand rupees.
Correct: The court directed that the owner of the car pay the accident victim a sum of ten thousand rupees

Correct: The inquiry committee proposes that Tom apologize to customers for his intemperance

Incorrect: My professor always insists that the students must inform him before meeting him
Correct: My professor always insists that the students inform him before meeting him


Some real GMAT examples

1. The commission proposed that funding for the park's development, which could be open to the public early next year, is obtained through a local bond issue

(A) That funding for the park’s development, which could be open to the public early next year, is
(B) That funding for development of the park, which could be open to the public early next year, be
(C) Funding for the development of the park perhaps opens to the public early next year to be
(D) Funds for the park’s development, perhaps open to the public early next year, be

(E) Development funding for the park, which could be open to the public early next year, is to be


2. In one of the most stunning reversals in the history of marketing, the Coca-Cola Company in July 1985 yielded to thousands of irate consumers demanding that it should bring back the original Coke formula.

(A) Demanding that it should
(B) Demanding it to
(C) and their demand to
(D) Who demanded that it
(E) Who demanded it to


3. Most state constitutions now mandate that the state budget be balanced each year.

(A) Mandate that the state budget be balanced
(B) Mandate the state budget to be balanced
(C) Mandate that the state budget will be balanced
(D) Have a mandate for a balanced state budget
(E) Have a mandate to balance the state budget



Past subjunctive
In the case of the past subjunctive, the grammatical form of the verb will be - I were, you were, he were, and they were- instead of the - I was, you were, he was or they were- forms.


The past subjunctive is used after the verb “wish” that cannot be fulfilled.

I wish I were Bill Gates

I wish I landed on the Mars

2. The past subjunctive is also used where the sentences are contrary to fact situations and hypothetical situations.

If the Sun were to rise in the west, I would donate one million rupees to the charity.

If I were to get 800 in my GMAT, I would expect the Wharton's and the Harvard has to beg me to join them.

If I were you, I would apply right now.

What would you do, if you won the lottery?

In sentences starting with “as if “and “as though”

The HOD thinks as if the staff were his errand boys

Some peons behave as though they were the GMs of the company.

Kusela spends as if he were Bill Gates.