- fact.
Subjunctives occur most often,
although not exclusively, in
subordinate clauses,
particularly that-clauses.
Examples of the
subjunctive in English...
-
grammars refer to non-factual
instances of
irrealis "were" as "past
subjunctives". So do
modern descriptive grammars,
while noting that the "past" is...
- The two
subjunctives have
their origins in Latin; from the past
perfect indicative came the -ra form, and from the past
perfect subjunctive came the...
-
Subjunctive possibility (also
called alethic possibility) is a form of
modality studied in
modal logic.
Subjunctive possibilities are the
sorts of possibilities...
- The
subjunctive in
Dutch is a verb mood
typically used in
dependent clauses to
express a wish, command, emotion, possibility, uncertainty, doubt, judgment...
-
closely dependent on a
subjunctive verb
becomes subjunctive itself. The name also
applies to
subjunctives used when a
subordinate clause is "so closely...
- ) Some
examples of
moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative,
subjunctive, ****ctive, optative, and potential.
These are all
finite forms of the...
-
follow certain types of
verbs of
command and desire. In this
usage the
subjunctives convey that the noun
clause is
describing a
state that is a possibility...
-
reserving the term "
subjunctive" for the
English clause type
whose distribution more
closely parallels that of
morphological subjunctives in
languages that...
- some
general conditions the
subjunctive mood is used in the protasis.
Ideal and
unreal conditionals use the
subjunctive in the protasis, and usually...
