Question

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
They will recommend that she ______ soon.
 a. leave
b. is leaving
c. left
d. will leave

Answer 1

Hint: The student should go through the options carefully after reading the sentence to understand what the sentence implies. This will help the student in finding the right answer for the given question.

Complete answer:
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'leave', refers to the phrase ‘to leave’ in the sentence. Therefore, option (a.) is correct as ‘to leave’ is a phrase which refers to abandoning something or departing from something and it also fits in the context which implies that they recommend that she should leave soon.
Option (b.), ‘is leaving', refers to ‘present tense’. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as the given sentence is in the future tense.
Option (c.), ‘left', refers to ‘past tense’. Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as the given sentence is in the future tense.
Option (d.), ‘will leave', is incorrect as the usage of ‘will’ (a modal auxiliary verb) indicates a certainty that she will leave. This cannot be true necessarily, as ‘they’ are only giving a recommendation as of yet and not giving any certain affirmation for her actually leaving.

Note:
In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of tense. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. There are three tenses - past, present, and future.