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Subjunctive   Listen
Subjunctive

noun
1.
A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible.  Synonym: subjunctive mood.
adjective
1.
Relating to a mood of verbs.



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"Subjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the present subjunctive of the Old Fr. asoldre (absoudre), to absolve, used in the stereotyped phrase Dieus ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... a special use in the subjunctive (in all persons) to express a condition; and would has a special use (in all persons) to express ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... senalara. A relic of the Latin pluperfect (in -aram, -eram), popularly confounded with the imperfect subjunctive. Its use is now somewhat archaic, and is restricted to relative clauses. See Ramsey's Spanish Grammar, H. Holt & ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... sei}, subjunctive of dependent question, narrated indirectly, the tense remaining the same as would be used when stated directly: {Ist die Welt wirklich so rund?} ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... unnecessary thought. In the clause if he was here, if fully expresses the subjunctive condition, and it is quite unnecessary to express it a second time by using another form of the verb to be. And so the people who are using the English language are deciding, for the subjunctive form is rapidly becoming obsolete with the long ...
— On the Evolution of Language • John Wesley Powell


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