Does "be on time" focus on the resultant state? My Japanese friend asked me this question today and I really wasn't sure aside from "are" maybe focusing on future tense and "be" focusing on now?
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It should be the first one--"be on time." "I ask that..." invokes the subjunctive mood, which is "be," not "are."
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Why should it be in the subjunctive-or-is-it when CGEL state unequivocally that the indicative cannot be said to be an ungrammatical choice here? This has been covered here so many times. – Edwin Ashworth Dec 19 '17 at 23:55