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Teleostomi wrote Hi native speakers of English could you tell me whether my hypothesis is right or not My hypothesis the subjunctive usage of as if takes effect only if the main verb is in the present tense Hi Teleostomi I m not a native speaker but here s my opinion I think you are right There...

See http en wikipedia org wiki Subjunctive_mood The_subjunctive_in_English They are all in subjunctive mood knew were had been past perfect subjunctive see http en wikipedia org wiki Subjunctive_mood The_pluperfect_subjunctive in this case Very similar with the indicative but subjunctive Not many...

Anonymous wrote I know that I can use the past tense for the unreal idea like the next sentence 1 He talks as if he knew everything But what if it s about the past unreal idea Can I use had past participle like the second sentence 2 They looked as if they were made a hundred years ago 3 They...

Hello Anon In the same way that you can invert a past subjunctive 1 If he were here now he would do X gt 1a Were he here now he would do X you can invert a present subjunctive 2 If he be alive or if he be dead I ll grind his bones to make my bread gt 2a Be he alive or be he dead I ll grind his...

lt I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin gt Do you doubt that was the case If so I guess you disagree with this If they have studied English...

Teleostomi wrote But why isn t the sentence done with agreement of tense He looks at me as if I were crazy gt agreement of tense He looked at me as if I had been crazy He looks at me as if I am crazy gt agreement of tense He looked at me as if I was crazy The former sentence is subjunctive the...

Hello Believer This discussion really is redundant since there are very few living instances in English where the subjuctive and the indicative take different forms and many people even want to dispute those If you were to look at language like Spanish1 which does have a living subjunctive you...

Hi My understanding on the use of subjunctive is as crudely as it may sound is that a person is trying to write as closely as possible as best to approximate the content the speech rendered previously Now when I was looking at the us geocities com website for its online help on subjunctive in the...

Hi My understanding on the use of subjuntive is as crudely as it may sound is that a person is trying to write as closely as possible as best to approximate the content the speech rendered previously Now when I was looking at the us geocities com website for its online help on subjunctive in the...

Hi I was checking out the us geocities com website for its help on subjunctive online and came upon these two sets of examples and want to ask you the question What is the relationship between may and might and also between will and would to make the second sets appropriate to be used as reported...