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Example sentences for: subjunctives
How can you use “subjunctives” 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).
But I should have thought that lawyers could have learned these and other “one-legged subjunctives’ from congressmen, cabinet ministers, and television talk-show guests who demonstrate extraordinary proficiency in such equivocations.
Although it has nothing to do with subjunctives, I cannot resist the temptation to reproduce the following sentence from an article by Sir Roy Strong, presumed aesthete and literatus, yet evidently victim of the universal virus that afflicts many users of English when they scent the proximity of like :
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