AjayendraSingh wrote:
This is the OA for a particular question:
The new regulations mandate that a company allow its retiring employees who would otherwise lose group health care coverage to continue the same insurance at their own expense for a specific period.
So the correct pattern can be: 1. X mandate that a company allow Y.
My doubt is, why do we use 'allow' and not 'allows'?
Because if I were to use recommend instead, which is another bossy verb, I would have, say,
2. I recommend that a company allow Y.
or
3. I recommend that Tom go to school.
This does not flow easily on my tongue. Are 1, 2 & 3 really correct usages of bare infinitives?
(sorry, this is a question from the Manhattan Review pdf, not the GMAT paper tests).
we have three moods in english grammar
1)Indicative
2) Imperative
3) Subjunctive
The above mentioned sentence is in subjunctive mood and is command subjunctive.
whenever you see words (bossy verbs) such as Demand, Dictate, Recommend, Request, Stipulate, Suggest, Insist, Mandate, Propose. Be sure they
all express command subjunctive
In the above question "mandate: indicats that
To form sentence with these verb. the structure looks like this
Subject+ (Bossy verb) that Subject + verb in its base formVerb in its base form means in all the sitution you need to use verb without "s" even when the sentence subject in third person singular humber
ex
As we know he runs correct but in subjunctive mood he
run, also never change the verb tense of base form verb
I demanded that he run correct. we cannot use runs.