Is "personal usage requires the user provision the device" correct? The bare infinitive v the to-infinitive

Solution 1:

Complex Catenative Construction

When a catenative verb has an object, the object usually comes between the catenative verb and second verb, creating a more complex construction, like this:

• I want him to study harder.

(Because this destroys the "verb chain", some linguists do not consider this construction to be catenative. We include it here because many linguists DO consider it to be catenative.)

The verb following a [catenative verb + object] can be in one of the following forms:

• (a) bare infinitive (eat)
• (b) to-infinitive (to eat)
• (c) -ing form (eating)
• (d) past participle (eaten)

Which form/s is/are available depends on the first verb. The following lists show those verbs allowing a bare infinitive, and those allowing a to-infinitive.

verb + object + infinitive

• (a) bare infinitive

feel, have, hear, help, let, make, notice, observe, see, smell, watch

• We heard you say [that] you loved her
• Will you help me wash the car?
• We didn't watch the sun set

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• (b) to-infinitive

allow, ask, assist, beg, bother, bribe, can bear, cause, challenge, charge, choose, command, compel, condemn, count on, dare, defy, depend on, direct, drive, empower, enable, encourage, entitle, expect, force, get, hate, help, impel, implore, incite, instruct, intend, invite, lead, leave, like, love, mean, need, oblige, order, persuade, prefer, press, rely on, remind, request, require, sentence, teach, tell, trouble, trust, urge, want, warn, wish

[and the following verbs, mostly with second verb to be]: assume, believe, consider, declare, discover, fancy, feel, find, imagine, judge, know, observe, presume, prove, report, represent, reveal, see, sow, suppose, think, understand

• Do they allow us to wear shoes? / [passive] Are we allowed to wear shoes?
• They told Sue to leave / [passive] Sue was told to leave
• We believed him to be honest

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[EnglishClub] [amended]

In complex catenations, require takes a to-infinitive, not a bare infinitive, after the NP:

• Disabling personal usage requires the user to provision the device as a fully managed device.

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There is the possible alternative using a that-clause complement:

• Disabling personal usage requires that the user [should] provision the device as a fully managed device.

Though 'that' is often deletable from that-clauses

(He said [that] he will come)

I'd say that this is unacceptable in this case.