The sentence is 'I insisted he meet her.'.
Why meet??? I think 'met' is right instead of 'meet'
'Meet' doesn't even have 's'.... Is that correct?
Please let me know~~
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(1) I believe that both "meet" and "met" are possible --
depending on what you wish to say.
(2) "I insisted that Tom
meet Mona
." = It was only your
strong recommendation. Maybe Tom followed your recommendation
or maybe he did not. Let's say that he did not meet Mona, who
owns a big business. Let's say that Tom's company lost a big
contract (because he did not meet with Mona). You could say:
Don't blame me. I insisted that Tom
meet Mona, but he ignored
my advice.
(a) Here are some other examples of the subjunctive that I have
made up:
I demand that Tom
be here tomorrow. (Maybe he will obey my demand or maybe he won't. We won't know until tomorrow.)
It is necessary that Martha
study for five more years if she wants that job. (We will have wait five years to see if she actually studied for five more years.)
We use the subjunctive when we are talking about something that is only in the speaker's mind. When I demand, insist, order, etc., maybe the other person will do what I demand, insist, or order, or maybe the other person will ignore what I demand, insist, or order.
We use the "s" (indicative") about something real (not only in the
speaker's mind:
I know that Tom i
s in his office every day at 7 a.m. (That's a fact)
Everyone says that Martha studie
s very hard. (That's a fact)
(3) "I insisted that Tom
met Mona." This is going to be difficult to
explain:
(a) Let's say that Tom
did absolutely
meet Mona yesterday to discuss
business matters between their two companies.
(b) Let's say that Mr. X does not believe that Tom and Mona
met/had
met yesterday.
(c) Let's say that you go to Mr. X's office and tell him that Tom and Mona
did meet/ met/ had met yesterday.
(d) Let's say that Mr. X listens to you and then agrees that, yes, Tom and
Mona did meet/ met/ had met yesterday.
(e) And let's say that when you leave Mr. X's office, someone asks you:
"Hey! What did you tell Mr. X?" And you answer:
"Well, I just kept insisting that Tom did meet/met/ had met Mona. I even
showed Mr. X some photographs of them in the restaurant. Mr. X finally
agreed with me."
The bottom line:
I insisted that Pamela
sing. = It was only my strong recommendation.
We do not know whether she sang or not.
I insisted that Pamela sing. She agreed with me and sang for one hour.
I insisted that Pamela sing. She ignored my request, so we never had an opportunity to hear her voice.
I insisted that Pamela
sang. = I KNOW that she
sang/had sung last night. So when some people refused to believe this fact, I refused to keep quiet. I insisted that she
did sing/ sang/ had sung. Finally those people said, "OK. OK. We believe you!!!"