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Alley requested that after her death Updated on: 31 Dec 2016, 19:18
Originally posted by pbms on 30 Dec 2016, 17:45.
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Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed the board of the directorship.

(A) be appointed
(B) be appointed to
(C) that is appointed to
(D) be appointed as
(E) get appointed as
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was confused between D and E.
I finally go with "D"
pls let me know it is the correct OA ?
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Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed the board of the directorship.

(A) be appointed
(B) be appointed to
(C) that is appointed to
(D) be appointed as
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(D) uses correct Subjunctive Usage , X be Y

Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed as the board of the directorship.
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Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed the board of the directorship.

(A) be appointed
(B) be appointed to
(C) that is appointed to
(D) be appointed as
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" Request " Requires a subjunctive I agree.
But how can a person be appointed" as" the board of something?
Can a single person comprise a board ?

on the other hand I feel B uses the subjunctive correctly and makes the meaning clear.

subjunctive construction = bossy verb + that + subject + subjunctive

bossy verb + that + subject + subjunctive
(B) requested that Tom be ( appointed to the board of Directorship ).

Hence feels as though B should be OA.
Please enlighten ?
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Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed the board of the directorship.

(A) be appointed
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Dear Expert ,

Can you please have a look at this doubt of mine , thank you.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/alley-reques ... l#p1910669
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Alley requested that after her death, Tom be appointed the board of the directorship.

(A) be appointed
(B) be appointed to
(C) that is appointed to
(D) be appointed as
(E) get appointed as
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Could you kindly recheck that the OA is D and not B. Kindly share the source as well.
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first i dont know what is board of directorship
I do know board of directors, myabe thats a source of mistake
but as i understand the meaning is board of directors. which usually consists a few or more people
as board of directors sounds like he will be the board and not within the board
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Hi All,

Look at the source of this question. This question is selfmade. "BEAWARE".

I donot prefer to solve questions that are self made or from poor sources.

I agree with what stne said above.

This question is wrong.

I will regard this question as Z grade. :-D
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