nightwing79 wrote:
The federal government requires hospitals to tell a Medicare patient of their legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
(A) The federal government requires hospitals to tell a Medicare patient of their legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
(B) The federal government requires hospitals to tell Medicare patients that they have a legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
(C) The federal government requires hospitals to tell Medicare patients that there is a legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
(D) The federal government requires that hospitals tell a Medicare patient of their legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
(E) The federal government requires that hospitals tell a Medicare patient that they have a legal right to challenge their discharge if they feel they are being sent home prematurely.
rohitchayal wrote:
How do we know that the sentence doesn’t need a subjunctive?
rohitchayal , initially, we do not know whether the sentence needs to be in command subjunctive form.
Other errors in the options will determine what form "require" takes.
Require can be followed by
that or by an infinitive. These constructs are both correct:
Require X to do Y
Require that X do YIn fact, if both constructions above are present, we do not worry about which one to use. They are equivalent.
Especially with the flexible verb
require, if you see both the infinitive and the command subjunctive constructions in the answer choices,
do not make the use of subjunctive a decision point.
Find other errors in the options and eliminate the options one by one.
GMAC cannot ask you to choose between two valid constructions. (
require that v.
require to do)
Question writers use both forms to distract you from the real errors.
• Eliminate A, D, and E because of pronoun error.Their and
they can never refer to a singular subject such as
patient.
Your question, slightly reframed:
will this sentence be written in the subjunctive? No, not this time.
That is, options D and E could be correct. Errors that have nothing to do with the subjunctive prevent them from being correct.
Requires that hospitals tell is not a decision point.
• The options have locked us into require + infinitiveBoth B and C use require + infinitive.
(C) unnecessarily inserts "there is."
B is the answer.
Because
require that and
require to verb are grammatically equivalent, we don't worry about the subjunctive.
We choose the answer with no grammar errors. We find that answer using the traditional method: elimination.
Quote:
And if it does require should be followed by a “that” as in the case of subjunctive category where a necessity is shown
I am not sure I understand your question.
I think you are asking about whether the word "that" in the command subjunctive construction is optional.
No, "that" is not optional in this command subjunctive construction. The word THAT must be present:
bossy verb + THAT + subject/noun + bare infinitive (command subjunctive)
Let's say that you face two remaining options. Both options use require. Both options are in the 'bossy verb" (not the infinitive) version.
#1 says: I require
that the wingnuts be removed from my lecture hall!
#2 says: I require the wingnuts be removed from my lecture hall!
#2 is wrong. When
require is used in command subjunctive form,
require is always followed by
that.I hope that answer helps.
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