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by Cybermusings » Sat May 12, 2007 11:16 pm
2. Constance Horner, chief of the United States government’s personnel agency, has recommended that the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant.
(A) the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant
(B) any dangerous or illegal drug, if used in the five years prior to applying for a job, should be grounds not to hire the applicant
(C) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds not to hire them
(D) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to applying for a job are grounds that they not be hired
(E) for five years prior to applying for a job, an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug be grounds for not hiring them
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by jayhawk2001 » Sun May 13, 2007 8:04 am
Cybermusings wrote:2. Constance Horner, chief of the United States government’s personnel agency, has recommended that the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant.
(A) the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant
(B) any dangerous or illegal drug, if used in the five years prior to applying for a job, should be grounds not to hire the applicant
(C) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds not to hire them
(D) an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to applying for a job are grounds that they not be hired
(E) for five years prior to applying for a job, an applicant’s use of any dangerous or illegal drug be grounds for not hiring them
"that ... be" is the correct form. I'm going with A

B, C and D use "grounds" without "for"

E is just awkward
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by mv12 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:30 pm
A it is.
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by snigdha.singh16 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:06 am
IMO A
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:16 am
jayhawk2001 wrote:
"that ... be" is the correct form. I'm going with A


B, C and D use "grounds" without "for"

E is just awkward
Yup. "recommend" is one of the verbs for which we must use subjunctive when we have a dependent clause:

recommend that *subjunctive verb*
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