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Financial advisors recommend that families account and manage all of their expenses.


A. account and manage

B. accounted for and managed

C. accounting for and managing

D. account for and manage

E. have accounted for and managed


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A. account and manage

B. accounted for and managed

C. accounting for and managing

D. account for and manage (Correct Idiom is account for)

E. have accounted for and managed
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Financial advisors recommend that families account and manage all of their expenses.

Step 1 - First look at the underline and figure what could be tested here - verb...hmmm

Step 2 - Read with meaning and start eliminating (notice the word recommend, hence recommendation must follow a "present VERB")

A. account and manage - account expenses vs account for (look at remaining options)

B. accounted for and managed - eliminate

C. accounting for and managing - eliminate

D. account for and manage - feels right idiomatically (Correct)

E. have accounted for and managed - eliminate
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Financial advisors recommend that families account and manage all of their expenses.


A. account and manage

B. accounted for and managed

C. accounting for and managing

D. account for and manage

E. have accounted for and managed


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Financial advisors recommend that families account and manage all of their expenses.


A. account and manage

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The verb account requires a preposition in order to logically connect to their expenses. Families should account for their expenses.

What helps us identify this question as a Split Construction question and identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    A split construction: Verb A + and/or + Verb B + object



B. accounted for and managed

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it creates a Subjunctive error. Recommend is one of the nine verbs to which the Subjunctive rule applies (if it is followed by that). This means that the next verb after recommend that should be in base form. However, accounted and managed are not in base form.

What helps us identify this question as a Subjunctive question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

propose/recommend/require/request/insist/suggest/mandate/ask/demand that

Whenever you come across this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is in its base form.


C. accounting for and managing

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it creates a Subjunctive error. Recommend is one of the nine verbs to which the Subjunctive rule applies (if it is followed by that). This means that the next verb after recommend that should be in base form. However, accounting and managing are not in base form.

What helps us identify this question as a Subjunctive question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    propose/recommend/require/request/insist/suggest/mandate/ask/demand that

Whenever you come across this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is in its base form.


D. account for and manage

This answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for.

It also uses the Subjunctive form correctly by using the base form of a verb (account, manage) to follow the phrase recommend that.


E. have accounted for and managed

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it creates a Subjunctive error. Recommend is one of the nine verbs to which the Subjunctive rule applies (if it is followed by that). This means that the next verb after recommend that should be in base form. However, have accounted and managed are not in base form.

What helps us identify this question as a Subjunctive question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    propose/recommend/require/request/insist/suggest/mandate/ask/demand that

Whenever you come across this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is in its base form.
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