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.
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I picked E for this question:

The word "recommend" should tip you off that a subjunctive verb form is necessary.

A. The subjunctive verb form is incorrectly used here. The subjunctive form needs to be: "subjunctive marker - ie. recommend" + "That" + "Subject" + "Subjunctive verb." In this case, the word "should" is inserted - this is not correct. Also, parallelism issues are present in this answer choice - eliminate, expensive services and use.

B. Again, the subjunctive form is not correctly used. Parallelism issues are present.

C. Again, the subjunctive form is not correctly used. Parallelism issues are present.

D. The subjunctive form is correct for this answer choice; however, the 3 elements are not paralle.

E. This answer choice correctly uses the subjunctive verb form and parallelism is maintained.

The report recommended that the hospital should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals.

A) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals.
B) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and other hospitals' space be used
C) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and to use space in other other hospitals
D) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and other hospitals' space used
E) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals

POE:
1.since report recommended so using "should " is redundant.
so Option A,B & C are out.
2.report recommended three things:
eliminate unneeded beds
expensive services
use space in other hospitals
and so these three should be in parallel form
in option D : other hospitals' is not parallel with other two.
hence Option E is the correct Option.

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With D, the sentence would be:

The report recommended that the hospital eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and other hospitals' space used.

How would you deconstruct it? Clearly the recommendation was for the hospital to do 3 things; that the hospital:

a. eliminate unneeded beds (The hospital eliminate unneeded beds: Correct)
b. consolidate expensive services (The hospital consolidate expensive services: Correct)
c. other hospitals' space used (The hospital other hospitals' space used: Clearly incorrect)

This is a simple, but powerful deconstruction technique that I learnt from the book I am referring to.

Hi Ankur,

Thanks for posting your doubt here.

This problem pertains to Parallelism. We must keep all the entities as Grammatically parallel to each other as possible. But this is not happening in Choice D:

D) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and other hospitals' space used: Here, "eliminate unneeded beds" and "consolidate expensive services" are active voice verbs phrases and hence, are grammatically parallel to each other. The third entity in the list is "other hospitals' space used", which is not parallel to the first two entities in the list. Now, it's not so that the active voices verbs cannot be parallel to passive voice verbs. Refer to OG12#36. The correct answer choice of this question has the verbs in two voices parallel.
However, it is incorrect in this sentence because the third entity can very well be made absolutely grammatically parallel to the other two entities without doing anything to the meaning. Hence, we must keep the third verb also in active voice.

Also, use of just "used" to denote passive voice is incorrect. The correct verb to be used here should be "be used".

Hope this helps.
Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thanks.
Shraddha
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Recommend THAT {infinitive verbs}... {PARALLELISM}.

E.

Hey guys,

One thing I do not catch is the subject. Either "the report" or "the hospital" is singular. right?

I see it this way:

the report recommended that the hospital eliminates, consolidates, and uses....

any site to check subjunctive problems?

thanks

The report recommended that the hospital should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals.

A) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals
B) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and other hospitals' space be used
C) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and to use space in other other hospitals
D) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and other hospitals' space used
E) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals

As there is a word "recommended" the use of the word "should" is redundant. Hence, A, B, C are out

D - "space used" is incorrect

E - Correct - Maintains Parallelism

I have a problem in understanding this problem.
How can it be written as
"The report recommended that the hospital eliminate unneeded beds"



"should" is missing in the sentence, and it sounds weird. Are helping verb not written in subjective mood?

hmm, i need to be more careful. I picked D.

+1 for E.

A classic subjunctive problem.

Crick

straight E/ absolutely a classic subjunctive and in subjunctive should is never used

Hi folks,

Can someone please explain, why choice D is incorrect?. Only diff between D and E is 'other hospitals' space used' is in passive voice in D and active voice in E. but active and passive voices can be in parallel! Is the meaning distorted in D?

meaning isn't distorted mate... the structure of the sentences should be made as identical as possible.... this is also called parallelism..... check the first two phrases....eliminate unneeded beds and consolidate expensive services..... In these two isn't the structure verb+adjective+noun? so we should make the third action item in the list to parallel.... If you consider D you are pushing used to the end and avoiding parallelism... So E is preferred.

E because of subjunctive, D is off due to parallelism problem and also most importantly "used" instead of "be used". So verb form itself is wrong, a more serious error than parallellism.

Thank you Shraddha and Ayushman.
Ayushman, your technique is amazing. what book are you referring to?
What i understand from this question, is that, when we make entities parallel, we need to make sure that the focus always remains on the subject of question
eg,
eliminate unneeded beds,
consolidate expensive services,
and other hospitals' space used --> focus shifts from the current hospital to other hospital, which is incorrect.

You're welcome. I have sent you a PM on the book.

eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals - parallel

This question tests subjunctive mood and parallelism. The answer is E.