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- grammaticality - Why is this sentence correct? “She suggested that he . . .
Why is this sentence correct? She suggested that he go to the cinema I would definitely use goes instead of go
- tenses - I suggested we go together I suggested we went together . . .
I suggested we go together I suggested we went together Which is the correct usage? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago
- grammar - Its suggested that he work hard. Its suggested that he . . .
It's suggested that he work hard - Correct After the use of some verbs such as suggest, demand, insist, etc , which imply an obligation, followed by "that", the verb in the object clause usually takes the subjunctive, which is "work" in this case It may also be useful to know that (some) British speakers might not follow this rule
- Use of subjunctive after suggested - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Australian children's book author Mem Fox has suggested she might never to return to the US after she was detained and insulted by border control agents at Los Angeles airport So far as I know, af
- grammar - suggested they do suggested they would do? - English . . .
They suggested he get there early [subjunctive mandative] They suggested he should get there early [should mandative] They suggested he gets there there early [covert mandative] On the acceptability of these, same source: Clear cases of the covert construction are fairly rare, and indeed in AmE are of somewhat marginal acceptability
- Suggest Usage - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
My father suggested that I subscribe to Newsweek In the above, I subscribe to Newsweek is a fully complete, grammatical sentence Encourage works differently It does not take a complete S as its complement; it takes what Lexical-Functional Grammar calls an XCOMP, which is essentially a non-finite verb phrase
- verbs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is it correct to say quot;to suggest to someone that they should do something quot;? Found in quot;Advanced Trainer, Six Practice Tests with Answers quot; by Felicity O'Dell and Michael Black, Se
- verbs - Use of this was suggested to me by. . . - English Language . . .
1 "This book was suggested to my by a friend " Is perfectly fine An alternative would be to say "A friend suggested this book to me " The second sentence puts more emphasis on the friend, whereas the first sentence focuses more on the book
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