Choose the grammatically correct subjunctive construction:
'The lead environmental inspector recommended that the refinery [...] its effluent discharge protocols immediately.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. revise
- Step 1: Verbs of recommendation, demand, and insistence (recommend, demand, insist) take a mandative subjunctive clause using the bare infinitive (base form). Step 2. The base form is 'revise' regardless of the third-person singular subject 'the refinery'. Answer: revise. Why not the others: Inflected forms ('revises', 'revised') violate standard mandative subjunctive syntax.
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