emmak wrote:
The Buffalo Club has approved tenets mandating that members should volunteer time to aid the community.
A)that members should volunteer time
B)that time be volunteered by members
C)the volunteering of time by members
D)members’ volunteering of time
E)that members volunteer time
A)that members should volunteer time
B)that time be volunteered by members
C)the volunteering of time by members
D)members’ volunteering of time
E)that members volunteer time
The non-underlined part is: "The Buffalo Club has approved tenets mandating................'
Mandate = command (bossy verb) ==> "should" is not appropriate. ==> A is wrong.
The correct idiom is: mandate that X DO Y (without TO)
E is correct.
Hope it helps.