Example sentences for: subjunctive

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

  • 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.

  • Lucien Maître-Créche, a 48-year-old copywriter specializing in fast-food accounts, was found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women of deliberately using the imperfect subjunctive tense of the franglaism jumbo frankfurter in a series of ads posted in the Paris Metro system.

  • 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'd be in a subjunctive mood

  • 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.


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