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Natalia09 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

we recommend that

Dear all,

does the following sentence sound good?

We recommend that the works are completed by XXX.

Thank you.
  

Top answer

Thank you. That's OK. It may be rewritten: We recommend *** for completing the works .

— Anonymous

  • Thank you.
  • That's OK.
  • It may be rewritten: We recommend *** for completing the works .
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Natalia09 Dear all,does the following sentence sound good?We recommend that the works are completed by ***.Thank you.
That's OK. It may be rewritten: We recommend *** for completing the works.
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You may hear/see We recommend that the works be completed by ***., using a present subjunctive form, but your sentence is fine.
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Natalia09We recommend that the works are be completed by ***.
As above for the preferred version in AmE.

CJ
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I have two further comments.

works The singular form of the word is almost always used, in a non-countable way.

completing To me, 'completing the work ' somewhat implies that some other person or company began the work. I'd use a verb like
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Thank you for the explanation!
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