Example sentences for: subjunctive

How can you use “subjunctive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although it is not impossible to find a subjunctive in British writing of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult; indeed, in a book I recently completed for Oxford University Press, virtually all subjunctives were replaced by indicatives (which, because of the solecisms created in American English, occasioned my rewriting of the text to avoid the problem).

  • Aimer then serves, in the imperfect subjunctive, as the auxiliary verb and is followed by jumbo frankfurter , which is of course an infinitive.

  • The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.

  • But correctly and popularly, too, and as on page 306 (No te preocupes) , the subjunctive is used for a negative imperative in the second-person singular.

  • I see no reason to use the present subjunctive ( tengas ) here.


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