In 1984 medical researchers at Harvard and Stanford universities concluded that sedentary life-styles lead to heart and lung diseases that shorten lives, strongly recommending middle-aged people to undertake some form of regular exercise.
(A). strongly recommending middle-aged people to
(B). strongly recommending that middle-aged people should
(C). and strongly recommended for middle-aged people to
(D). and their strong recommendation was for middle-aged people to
(E). and they strongly recommended that middle-aged people
A
bossy word serves to express a command or recommendation:
suggests, recommends, insists, etc.
Bossy words typically require the COMMAND SUBJUNCTIVE.
The structure of the command subjunctive is BOSSY WORD + THAT + NOUN + BARE INFINITIVE.
The
bare infinitive is the infinitive form of a verb with the
to omitted.
Example:
The bill MANDATES that a bank DISCLOSE its assets.
Here,
mandates is a bossy word, while
disclose is the bare infinitive form of
TO disclose.
In the SC above, the researchers are being bossy: they are RECOMMENDING.
Only
E correctly employs the command subjunctive:
They strongly RECOMMENDED that middle-aged people UNDERTAKE some form of exercise.
Here,
recommended is a bossy word, while
undertake is the bare infinitive form of
TO undertake.
The correct answer is
E.
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