Hi everyone,
Need your help on this. Is will held in the sentence below correct or should it be will hold and Why? Thank you in advance.
Failure to abide with the order will held the Department Head administratively liable.
Will hold. The rule is that after any modal auxiliary verb (can, could, may, might, must, will, would, shall, should) we use the bare infinitive. The form has no tense on it.
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Will hold.
The rule is that after any modal auxiliary verb (can, could, may, might, must, will, would, shall, should) we use the bare infinitive. The form has no tense on it.
...will go
may need
should buy
might have (might have been)
could be
It is the same after any form of "Do."
do go
does go
did go
don't go
doesn't go