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Example sentences for: subjunctive
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It may be interesting to note that the very same evening one could hear (and watch) a rebroadcast of Malcolm Muggeridge's 1984 interview with centenarian Catherine Bramwell-Booth whose uses of the subjunctive rang forth like a battle cry for the freedom of the English language.
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.
'] Officials at the Ministry for Cultural Recidivism, alarmed that the proliferation of the posters could create an unfortunate conception in the minds of French children that the imperfect subjunctive tense of the verb jumbo frankfurter dated all the way back to Rabelaisian times--thus lending the expression a certain historical pedigree--immediately ordered the copywriter's arrest.
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.
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