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Jack112 Posted 20 years ago
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01. Microsoft recommends that the server providing DNS for Active Directory 01b00support02b00 incremental zone transfers. (Is 'support' correct here? Why isn't it singular as in 'supports'? What is the subject for 'support'?)02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jack11212cite 101. Microsoft recommends that the server providing DNS for Active Directory 11b 10support12b 10 incremental zone transfers. (Is 'support' correct here?

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jack11212cite 101.
  • Microsoft recommends that the server providing DNS for Active Directory 11b 10support12b 10 incremental zone transfers.
  • (Is 'support' correct here?
  • Why isn't it singular as in 'supports'?
  • 02br 02br 00That's perfectly alright as the sentence is in subjunctive mood, with 'should' (ie.
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1. Microsoft recommends that the server providing DNS for Active Directory support incremental zone transfers. (Is 'support' correct here? Why isn't it singular as in 'supports'? What is the subject for 'support'?)
I still don't quite understand your explanation as of why it is 'support' and not 'supports'. Could you explain it in a different way please? Thanks!!
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The sentence is in a subjunctive form, so you don't add -s to "support." The subject of support is the server.

The subjunctive is used in formal English when we wish to express the importance of something. It usually follows verbs like recommend, insist or suggest, and other words that express these ideas, such as vital, important or essential
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jack112

I guess, as far as Microsoft is concerned, the server is a pluralistic object. Inside a server computer contains DNS server, DHCP server, printer server, etc. So many servers in one server computer. On top of this a server could support 10 computers or 10000 computers.

I would write supports in the given context.
[ I wouldn't expect everybody to know the wo
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Jack1121. Microsoft recommends that the server providing DNS for Active Directory support incremental zone transfers. (Is 'support' correct here? Why isn't it singular as in 'supports'? What is the subject for 'support'?)

Thanks.

Hello Jack

I'd agree that it's a subjunctive construction, for the reasons that Optimus gave. In
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