Whatever the reason, the subjunctive mood goes largely unused in both formal and informal ... “Drive as if every motorist on the road were out to hurt you.” - In a “that” clause after “desirous” or ...

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines a counterfactual as “a conditional statement in which the ‘if’ clause makes ... grammatically in a subjunctive mood, that is, expressing ...

Subjunctive "that"-clause constructions are definitely not ... This winds up our discussion of the subjunctive mood. This essay, which first appeared in my weekly column "English Plain and Simple ...

In this mood, I make straightforward statements ... that you think could not possibly be correct, as in the old subjunctive clause “If it be true” or “If it were true,” as opposed to ...

It is called the subjunctive mood, and it often causes a lot of problems ... but rather the subordinate clause whoever asked for it first. The verb of the clause is asked, and the subject is ...

“Painless Grammar” ($9) wouldn’t tell me. All the books listed above are happy to tell me when to use the subjunctive mood. But none tell me how to use the subjunctive mood. The closest any ...

The subjunctive mood indicates a hypothetical situation, something that’s not actually real, but something we really, really wish were true. If Bradley’s arm were longer, more faces—and thus ...

The person who wrote this probably wasn’t striving to correctly use the subjunctive mood. Yet this is a shining example. Notice how the subject “patient” pairs with the verb “receive.” ...