Does "recommend" mean "be introduced" here?

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Context:Hospitals should face tough new scrutiny of their care by beefed-up teams of inspectors including doctors and nurses, a landmark report into hundreds of unnecessary deaths at an NHS hospital will recommend next week.

Dimsumexpress · Accepted Answer

NL888Context:Hospitals should face tough new scrutiny of their care by beefed-up teams of inspectors including doctors and nurses, a landmark report into hundreds of unnecessary deaths at an NHS hospital will recommend next week.

This is a poorly composed passage. I couldn't understand what you are trying to say.

Do you mean " ...by beefing up teams of ......"inspectors and nurses?" Maybe it is me....

Fivejedjon · Answer

dimsumexpressI couldn't understand what you are trying to say. Do you mean " ...by beefing up teams of ......"inspectors and nurses?"

No. It is the teams which have been beefed up.

'Recommend' means what it usually does - advise a course a action.

NL888 · Answer

You said "teams," and then you referred the teams as "it." This confused me.

"The teams ... will recommend" is understandable, while "the report... will recommend" is hard to understand.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

fivejedjonNo. It is the teams which have been beefed up.
'Recommend' means what it usually does - advise a course a action.

I completely agree with you and I knew what they meant as phrases. However, what made me bang my head on was the syntactic meaning of the entire passage. It didn't sound and look like a natural sentence, let a lone a report. I read it at least 10 times since my last post, and I still feel that the passage could be written more clearly.
But I believe I finally understood what it tried to say. So if I may take the liberty to rewrite it based on what I could get out of the OP, so that it has the semantic flow of a decent news report, it may sound something like this.

Hospitals in the XYZ area are facing new allegations and tough scrutinty for improper patient care by different agencies including of health inspectors, doctors and nurses, following hundreds of unnecessary deaths at an NHS hospital. The joint report will recommend next week.....

Fivejedjon · Answer

Hospitals should face tough new scrutiny of their care by beefed-up teams of inspectors including doctors and nurses, a landmark report into hundreds of unnecessary deaths at an NHS hospital will recommend next week.

dimsumexpressHospitals in the XYZ area are facing new allegations and tough scrutinty for improper patient care by different agencies including of health inspectors, doctors and nurses, following hundreds of unnecessary deaths at an NHS hospital. The joint report will recommend next week.....

There is no suggestion in the original that they are facing new allegations, that there are different agencies, or that the scrutiny is rstricted to XYZ area. There is no mention in your veersion that the teams have been 'beefed up' or that the recommendation is for the hospitals to face tough new scrutiby.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

fivejedjonThere is no suggestion in the original that they are facing new allegations, that there are different agencies, or that the scrutiny is rstricted to XYZ area. There is no mention in your veersion that the teams have been 'beefed up' or that the recommendation is for the hospitals to face tough new scrutiby.

fivejedjon,
True! And I realized that. Please allow me to ask you, was the original sentence grammatical and syntactically natural in your assessment? To me, it didn't look, nor did it sound like anything a good journalist would say. The re-interprreted version was not meant to be a word-for-word rendition of the original. What "hospitals"? ( so I added XYZ). True, the word " allegations" was not in the OP. I used it to create a journalistic-like context. I have heard " beefed up security", but "teams" is the first. In any case, I am not sure you saw my point. Last point, how would you revise the OP so that reader can grasp the meaning on the first pass? Thank you for your critique.

Fivejedjon · Answer

dimsumexpresswas the original sentence grammatical and syntactically natural in your assessment?

It's not great literature, but it's fine for a newspaper article.

dimsumexpressWhat "hospitals"? ( so I added XYZ)

All hospitals, one assumes.

dimsumexpresshow would you revise the OP so that reader can grasp the meaning on the first pass?

I wouldn't. Native speakers would have no problem with it, in my opinion.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

fivejedjonIt's not great literature, but it's fine for a newspaper article.

Seriously! Shouldn't news paper be more literal and journalistic? I am only interested in knowing if you would put your stamp of approval on it. Short answers are too easy. Sorry for being blunt.

fivejedjondimsumexpresshow would you revise the OP so that reader can grasp the meaning on the first pass? I wouldn't. Native speakers would have no problem with it, in my opinion

If you believe this is easily understood by natives speakers, and the content was graaamtically clear enough for the mass audience, I'll take your word for it.

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