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It's time he go home immediately.
Is the sentence above grammatical? And if so, could it be classified as a subjunctive mandative construction?
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tkacka15 It's time he go home immediately. I'd accept it as a borderline case. The traditional injunction is to use the past: It's time he went home immediately .
- tkacka15 It's time he go home immediately.
- I'd accept it as a borderline case.
- The traditional injunction is to use the past: It's time he went home immediately .
- In either case it is definitely a mandative construction.
- (I'm familiar with the classification (present) subjunctive and the classification mandative construction , but not with the combination subjunctive mandative construction .
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tkacka15It's time he go home immediately.
I'd accept it as a borderline case. The traditional injunction is to use the past: It's time he went home immediately.
In either case it is definitely a mandative construction.
(I'm familiar with the classification (present) subjunctive and the classification mandative construct
0tkacka15It's time he go home immediately.
To me, this is highly strained, to the point where I would not accept it as correct in ordinary modern English. It could be that AmE is slightly more accepting of this form than BrE.
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