Collocations for "request" (verb) ; "recommend" : subjunctive status

This blogpost shows you how one might investigate whether a verb currently takes the subjunctive form and how that might have changed over time.

Compare "request" to “I recommend that …”

"Recommend" takes the subjunctive form of the verb.

This has examples and an interactive exercise: https://www.businessenglishresources.com/subjunctive-exercises/ 

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/english-subjunctive-what-is-it/#

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Here is a screenshot of 17 of the 352 sentences that are the output from the COCA corpus for the search key "I request" as entered into my account at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/

Sentence (15) (COCA: Websites(?): 2012) is understandable but violates common usage by using the infinitive as though it applies to the preceding noun. You can use the infinitive for the second verb so long as both verbs apply to the subject, "I,' in this case. We leave aside the obvious lack of  object for the word "verify." So we can say (15a) if we want to use the infinitive "to verify," but only (15b) and (15c) capture the meaning in (15).

(15a) I request to verify your notes via email in order to ...
(15b) I request that people verify your notes via email in order to ....

(15c) I request people's verification of your notes vi email in order to ...
 (15) I request people to verify via email in order to try to avoid such situations and hope to know the answer soon. 

Keith Folse's ESL grammar book categorizes these requesting verbs (make, let, have, help) as Group 4F because they require an object (noun or pronoun) with a bare infinitive, that is, an infinitive that lacks the "to" part (2016, p. 248).  Let's add "request" in with Group 4F!

The source for (15) has five further examples that use "request," with four being in the comments as a verb. (To see all five you may need to enter from the archive index for June 2012; look for the April or June capture; stop the page from uploading by pressing the X on your browser; then check the 5 locations using control-f  FIND. Without those steps, otherwise Disqus flags an error and the webpage comments get truncated so no longer appear.)

Let me gather the text together here, so that the usages are easier to follow and model, right or wrong. I leave it to you, glorious reader, to sort out the year in which Sentence (1) was written. It, too, uses the infinitive "... and I request any gentleman to point out ..."

Links

https://www.english-corpora.org/faq.asp#cite
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=8-LRgUIAAAAJ&citation_for_view=8-LRgUIAAAAJ:Ri6SYOTghG4C

https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120101000000*/http://www.aviewfromthecave.com/2011/05/ian-birrell-vs-paul-kagame-on-twitter.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120422091616/http://www.aviewfromthecave.com/2011/05/ian-birrell-vs-paul-kagame-on-twitter.html

https://grosslearning.blogspot.com/p/my-revision-to-2012-request-corpus.html

Citations (APA)

Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Available online at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/.

Folse, K. S., Azar, B. S. (2016). Keys to teaching grammar to English language learners: A practical handbook. United States: University of Michigan Press.