Recommendations

Teachers, doctors, bosses and friends - all sorts of people have recommendations for us. When they recommend that we or another person take some sort of action, they will make the request using the Subjunctive.

For example, if dra. Limone recommends that all of her students watch San Jose Sharks games, she would phrase it like this:

Les recomiendo que miren los partidos de los Tiburones de San José.

If she wants you to cheer loudly at the Sharks' games, she asks:

Quiero que griten con entusiasmo en los partidos de los Tiburones.

La doctora Hammond le recomienda que Susana beba tres copas de vino cada mañana.

Dr. Hammond recommends that Susana drink three glasses of wine each morning.

Notice how before the Subjunctive there is the word que. The que separates the Recommender from the Recommendation when there is another person (a change of subject) involved.

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