The advisory board proposed that the municipal budget ______ revised to allocate additional funds to public transit.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. be
- Step 1: Verbs expressing suggestions or proposals ('propose', 'recommend') take a that-clause with mandative subjunctive. In modern English, the passive mandative subjunctive consists of the uninflected base form 'be' plus past participle ('revised'). Answer: be. Why not the others: "is being currently" uses present progressive indicative instead of the required mandative subjunctive base; "will be carefully" uses future modal indicative which violates subjunctive requirements in mandative complements; "was thoroughly" uses past simple indicative, inappropriate for an unfulfilled prospective policy proposal.
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