Directions : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine whether there is an error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the answer sheet against the above-mentioned corresponding letter. If there is no error, indicate your response as (d).
**I recommended**/ **that he would reduce**/ **his expenditure.**/ **No error.**
- AI recommended
- Bthat he would reduce
- Chis expenditure.
- DNo error.
Explanation
The error is in part (b). Verbs like “recommend” take the mandative subjunctive in the that-clause: the base form of the verb, as in “I recommended that he reduce his expenditure” (or “should reduce”). “Would reduce” expresses willingness or future-in-the-past and cannot follow “recommended”. Parts (a) and (c) are grammatically sound, so the fault lies in (b).