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The Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua strongly recommended that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration.
A. becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
B. becomes dissected into smaller agencies that will allow more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
C. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distributing, and exploration
D. will become dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
E. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
A. becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
B. becomes dissected into smaller agencies that will allow more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
C. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distributing, and exploration
D. will become dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
E. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
02 May 2021, 05:30
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua strongly recommended that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration.
A. becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. 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 recommended that should be in base form. However, becomes is 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.
B. becomes dissected into smaller agencies that will allow more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect and repeats the original 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 recommended that should be in base form. However, becomes is 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. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distributing, and exploration
Although this answer choice corrects the original Subjunctive error by using the base form verb be after recommended that, it creates a Parallelism error. The first and last items in the list are nouns (production, exploration), but the middle item is a verb (distributing).
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be in the same part of speech or of the same type of the part of speech (all nouns, or all verbs, or all adjectives...).
- Correct: I like ice cream, chocolate, and chicken wings. (all three items are nouns)
Incorrect: Paul hates skiing, watching TV, and to do the Mambo dance. (although they are all verbs, they are in different verb forms.)
What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
D. will become dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. 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 recommended that should be in base form. However, will become is 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.
E. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration
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 recommended that should be in base form. This answer choice correctly uses be.
General Discussion
30 Apr 2021, 06:53
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This question tests your knowledge of subjunctive trigger words(recommend)
The form of the sentence when subjunctive verb is used is " trigger word(recommend in this case) +that +subject +plural verb"
The Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua strongly recommended that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration.
A. becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration wrong cause it uses becomes (singular verb)
B. becomes dissected into smaller agencies that will allow more effective control of production, distribution, and explorationRepeats the same error as option A
C. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distributing, and exploration - Corrects the verb error but inserts a parallelism error with "distributing"
D. will become dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration - will become is wrong
E. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration - Correct Answer
The form of the sentence when subjunctive verb is used is " trigger word(recommend in this case) +that +subject +plural verb"
The Nigerian president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua strongly recommended that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration.
A. becomes dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration wrong cause it uses becomes (singular verb)
B. becomes dissected into smaller agencies that will allow more effective control of production, distribution, and explorationRepeats the same error as option A
C. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distributing, and exploration - Corrects the verb error but inserts a parallelism error with "distributing"
D. will become dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration - will become is wrong
E. be dissected into smaller agencies, allowing for the more effective control of production, distribution, and exploration - Correct Answer
