ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

Marius Hancu — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:44:26 GMT

The subjunctive mood forms:

should sell

and

sell

are the formal ones.

Sells is informal.

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

roccololipop — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:13:48 GMT

Thank you soo much. That was really a satisfactory explanation.

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

MrPedantic — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:02 GMT

I'm not familiar with the site; but the writer may well be of BrE origin.

(In BrE, you could use "sells", "should sell", or the subjunctive "sell". The last option has become more popular in the last two decades, in BrE, in contexts where "should sell" would once have been predominant.)

MrP

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

roccololipop — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:54:35 GMT

So the information at http://www.visualesl.com/pages/en/english_suggestions is incorrect.

It says "Mark suggests that he sells/should sell his house" is correct.

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

Grammar Geek — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:46:29 GMT

No, sorry.

suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

roccololipop — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:32:58 GMT

1) I suggest that he sell the car.

2) I suggest that he sells the car.

We know that no 1 is correct. Is no 2 also correct?