# The Formal Subjunctive (advanced) | SwaVid

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# The formal subjunctive (advanced): rules and examples

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Short answer. After verbs like suggest, insist, demand, recommend, request, ask, advise and propose followed by that, formal English uses the base verb with no -s. Learn to spot it.

1 . Formal English after verbs like insist. Which one uses the formal subjunctive?

After verbs like suggest, insist, demand, recommend, request, ask, advise and propose followed by that, formal English uses the base verb with no -s. Learn to spot it.

suggest / insist / demand that + base verb (no -s).

It is important that. The base verb also comes after it is important, essential, vital or necessary that.

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- Spot the base verb . The verb after that stays in its base form, even with he, she or every student. Be stays be.
- It is important that . The base verb also comes after it is important, essential, vital or necessary that.
- Subjunctive or ordinary verb? . Verbs like know, think and hear just report a fact, so the next verb is ordinary. Only words of demand or suggestion, and phrases like it is essential that, take the base verb.
- suggest / insist / demand that + base verb (no -s).

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