Example sentences for: subjunctive

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

  • For what M. Maître-Crèche used was not the imperfect subjunctive of the verb jumbo frankfurter but of the verb aimer.

  • 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.

  • The British have gone so far in this business of telling it like it is that they have all but eliminated the subjunctive that covers contrary to fact conditions.

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

  • Had the subjunctive been invoked, these mysterious motives would have vanished in a trice.


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