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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
- suggests or suggested? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- 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 13 years ago Modified 3 years, 5 months 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
- 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
- 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
- What are the differences between offer, propose, and suggest?
I suggested an Italian restaurant near the station for the party Offer is to ask someone if they would like to have something or if they would like you to do something: She was offered a job in Paris A proposal is a suggestion, sometimes a written one: Have you read Steve's proposals for the new project?
- grammaticality - Am I using “suggest that” correctly? - English . . .
I agree, but I would also suggest that it is more the verb suggest itself rather than the subordinator that that here triggers the switch to a bare infinitive instead of a finite form to signal the mandative subjunctive context of the suggestion
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