Select the correct grammatical construction: 'The surgeon recommended that the patient ___ emergency appendectomy immediately.' (Hard)
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. undergo
- Step 1: Verbs of recommendation, demand, and insistence (recommend, insist, suggest) require the mandative subjunctive mood in the that-clause. Step 2. The subjunctive uses the bare base form of the verb regardless of the subject: 'The surgeon recommended that the patient undergo emergency appendectomy immediately.' Answer: undergo. Why not the others: 'undergoes' is indicative; 'underwent' is past tense; 'should undergo' is acceptable in British English but bare subjunctive is formally preferred in standard medical writing.
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