Hi, everybody!
I am very confused about what structures we can use after such advice verbs as suggest, recommend, advise. I have read different grammar books, looked them up in a bunch of dictionaries but failed to find a solid answer. Can you help me out?
So here are the options that I found may be used after the verbs:
Let �s say we have a problem: He needs to improve his English.
A possible solution: He should sign up for an English course.
What are the correct ways to give advice?
I recommend/suggest: signing up for the course
his signing up for the course
that he sign up for the course (the subjunctive)
that he signed up for the course (i found it in English file Advanced p. 150)
that he signs up for the course (I found it on bbc.co.uk website)
that he should sign up for the course
him to sign up for the course (that �s the biggest dilemma, cuz some websites and people say that it �s totally incorrect, however previously mentioned English file, Grammar in use intermediate by Murphy, Oxford and Longman dictionaries are perfectly fine with such usage)
So, is it about American English vs British English?
Thank you in advance for the help and have a good day :-)