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Hasibul Alam Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

We know after modal verbs the pricipal verbs must be present form but why here is +ing form?

Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others

  

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Hasibul Alam they might doing work That is a typing mistake. It should be 'might be doing'.

— Mister Micawber

  • Hasibul Alam they might doing work That is a typing mistake.
  • It should be 'might be doing'.
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Hasibul Alam they might doing work

That is a typing mistake. It should be 'might be doing'.

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Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others.

The requirement is that the clause following a modal auxiliary is a non-finite one, which is the case in your example.

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Team members [ who have a voice in making a decision ] will no doubt feel better about [ carrying out the work [that is entailed by that decision] ] than [ they might doing work [that is imposed on them by others.]]

It is difficult to disentangle all the clauses in the sentence. Without structural changes, a simplified version can be read:

Team members will feel better about doin

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I can see that the sentence is not your own, but is taken verbatim from a website called 'Writeto(the)Top.com.

I agree with AS that it could be better, but there it is, warts 'n' all! And it does comply with the grammatical requirement that modal auxiliaries be followed by a non-finite clause.

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