Choose the sentence that correctly uses the subjunctive mood after a verb of demand:

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. The faculty committee recommended that the candidate submit an updated curriculum vitae.

  1. Step 1: In English, verbs of urgency, recommendation, or requirement (recommend, demand, insist, require) take a 'that'-clause with the subjunctive mood.
  2. Step 2: The present subjunctive employs the bare base form of the verb regardless of the subject's person or number.
  3. Step 3: Therefore, 'submit' (not 'submits' or 'submitted') is grammatically required after 'recommended that the candidate'.
Answer
The faculty committee recommended that the candidate submit an updated curriculum vitae.
Why not the others: 'The faculty committee recommended that the candidate submits an updated curriculum vitae' uses standard indicative third-person singular instead of the subjunctive base form; 'The faculty committee recommended that the candidate submitted an updated curriculum vitae' uses simple past indicative; 'The faculty committee recommended that the candidate will submit an updated curriculum vitae' inappropriately inserts future auxiliary 'will'.

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