are suggested to

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

troll victims are suggested “not to feed the troll”

There seem to be two issues: the use of the verb suggest, and which verbs have the pattern shown here. One way of approaching this is to use the lines shown at this link: http://ske.li/urged_not_to, which look like this:

 

More advanced students might be interested in exploring the lines available through this link: https://ske.li/be_askedetc_to, which looks like this:

 

For those who still want to use suggest, this link  https://ske.li/is_suggestedconc shows some examples, which look like this:

 

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