Select the option that best completes the sentence: Preeti suggests ______
- (a)that I ask to your advice
- (b)that I had asked your advice
- (c)that I can have asked your advice
- (d)that I ask your advice
Correct — D, 'that I ask your advice'. After 'suggest', the that-clause takes the mandative subjunctive — the base form of the verb ('ask'), unchanged for person — so 'that I ask your advice' is right. 'Ask' is used transitively here ('ask someone's advice' = seek it), which is why no preposition is needed after it.
- (a)that I ask to your advice — The intrusive 'to' is wrong: you 'ask (someone's) advice' or 'ask for advice', never 'ask to your advice'.
- (b)that I had asked your advice — Past perfect 'had asked' clashes with the present 'suggests' and with the forward-looking sense of a suggestion; the subjunctive requires the base form 'ask'.
- (c)that I can have asked your advice — 'can have asked' is an ill-formed modal-perfect that makes no sense after 'suggest'; the required form is the plain subjunctive 'ask'.
Mandative subjunctive: verbs of proposal/command such as suggest, recommend, insist, demand take a that-clause with the base verb ('that I ask'), not a tensed or modal form.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct completion: The doctor recommended ______
- (a)that he takes rest
- (b)that he take rest
- (c)that he took rest
- (d)that he taking rest
Answer(b) that he take rest — 'recommend' takes the mandative subjunctive, so the base form 'take' is used.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct completion: The committee insisted ______
- (a)that the rule is changed
- (b)that the rule will change
- (c)that the rule be changed
- (d)that the rule was changed
Answer(c) that the rule be changed — after 'insist', the subjunctive uses the base form 'be'.