Words similar to subjunctive

Example sentences for: subjunctive

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Here the subjunctive sea is called for.
It concerned the shocking case of M. Lucien Maître-Crèche, a Parisian copywriter sentenced to eight years in prison for using the imperfect subjunctive case of a prohibited verb, jumbo frankfurter , in a series of ads posted in the Paris Metro.
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.
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).
British writers (among whom I number journalists, who, after all, probably write more English than most people) sometimes go to great lengths to avoid using the subjunctive, resulting in writing that jars what poor sensibilities might remain to Americans: