请教OG12-SC54vs51虚拟语气

ywsunny

54.The report recommended that the hospital should
eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services
should be consolidated, and use space in other
hospitals.

(A)should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive
services should be consolidated, and use space
in other hospitals

(B)should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive
services should be consolidated, and other
hospitals' space be used

(C)should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive
services should be consolidated, and to use
space in other hospitals

(D)eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive
services, and other hospitals' space used

(E)eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive
services, and use space in other hospitals

Grammatical construction; Parallelism

The underlined portion of the sentence is
incoherent and runs together two sentences {the
... beds; expensive ... consolidated). Making the
report's three recommendations into a series of
three grammatically parallel elements corrects
this problem. Since the report recommended, it is
redundant to use should. Each of the three parallel
elements may consist of a verb and an object: 1)
eliminate unneeded beds, 2) consolidate expensive
services, and 3) use space in other hospitals.

A Incoherent construction includes a run-on
sentence; following recommended, should is
redundant.

BFollowing recommended, should is redundant;
three elements in the series are not parallel.

CFollowing recommended, should is redundant;
the second and third elements are not
parallel to the first.

DOther hospitals'space used is awkward and
not parallel to the other two elements.

ECorrect. In this concise sentence, each of
the three parallel elements in the series
consists of a verb and an object.

The correct answer is E.


OG12的54题不是特别难。但是我对于recommend的虚拟语气用法不是很明白。OG的解释是说following recommended, should is redundant。那此处究竟是否用了虚拟语气呢？
按照OG51说的主语不是人，所以suggest没有用虚拟语气，那么54中的主语也不是人，是否也没有用虚拟语气呢？
假如是用了虚拟语气的话，有should就很正常呀，为何还要说redundant呢？
恳请各位赐教~

ywsunny

51.   A new study suggests that the conversational pace of
everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of
some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and
words and, the result is. to make sense of speech.
(A)    it hampers the ability of some children for
distinguishing discrete sounds and words and,
the result is, to make
(B)    that it hampers the ability of some children to
distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a
result, to make
(0   that it hampers the ability of some children to
distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the
result of this, they are unable to make
(D)    that it hampers the ability of some children to
distinguish discrete sounds and words, and
results in not making
(E)    as to hamper the ability of some children for
distinguishing discrete sounds and words,
resulting in being unable to make

Rhetorical construction; Parallelism; Diction

The sentence describes a hypothesized causal
series: The fast conversational pace impairs
children's ability to distinguish individual sounds
and words, and this, in turn, impairs their ability
to make sense of speech. These two consequences,
both impaired abilities, are most clearly and
efficiently expressed in parallel infinitive phrases
(to distinguish and to make). The explanatory
phrase as a result before the second infinitive
clarifies the sequence. The term ability should be
followed by the preposition to, not for.
A    For is the wrong preposition to follow
ability; the phrase and, the result, is
introduces a new clause which indicates that
children's inability to distinguish sounds
enables them to make sense of speech.
B    Correct. The two abilities hampered by the
fast pace of conversation are described with
the parallel infinitive phrases to distinguish
and to make.
C     The result of this is a new subject that
grammatically requires a new verb; the
phrase is wordy and unclear.
D This version of the sentence nonsensically
suggests that the pace of speech results in
not making sense of speech, removing the
children from the picture as the ones who
are affected.

强娃娃

对于虚拟语气中SHOULD处理，按常理是SHOULD可省可不省，但GMAT中比较倾向于省略SHOULD
主语SUGGEST的问题，SUGGEST表达建议的意思时候需用虚拟语气
而SUGGEST表示 “暗示”的意思的时候，不用虚拟语气，也就像OG所说，主语不是人的话，很难建议。但是就算主语是人，有时候SUGGEST表达暗示的意思也不用虚拟语气(好像只有高考考这么细吧）

fionaz426

像recommend，mandate等bossy 虚拟语气，本身就含有should的意思，所以GMAT一律省掉should直接加动词原形。suggest有两个意思，表建议时才考虑虚拟语气。

ywsunny

O(∩_∩)O谢谢大家的回答~明白了

cutey3

谢谢！　　　　　　　　　　　　

wsad445

这个题我也有疑问，楼上回答的很好。我想补充就是曼哈顿5版中提到command subjective is more important than hypothetical subjective，而用在command subjective 中的是require，recommend 还有propose 这类bossy verbs。例句：
right： We propose that the school board diaband.
wrong: We propose that the school board should disband.
所以证明见到这类用法时不能用should，除了另一种用法这些bossy verbs 不用作command subjective，例如：
Her presence suggests that she is happy. 在这种情况下，suggest means “probably means”。