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Matress wrote: YoHf wrote: Gingie wrote: 2. may god blesses you. please.. help me.. i am confused.. Here you can't have the "s"/"es" of the 3rd singular person also because there is "may", a modal verb... Ex.: "He may go out", and not "he may goes out" The same happens with other modal...

http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pleased/hvdv/Post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Subjunctive/gmkc/Post.htmIn both of the above posts, miriam has explained the subjunctive in detail but it's all quite confusing to me. I've studied subjuctive from American Heritage and Columbian Guide...

Ive read that modals such as ‘would’ and ‘could’ give a ‘subjunctive idea’ and other non-committal descriptions as such, but I don’t understand the rationale behind those reservations. They seem also to apply to the non-past. It seems people don’t wish to call these forms the subjunctive for...

When we talk about a subjunctive construction, I think it is easier to understand it without the 'inserted clause, I would think' becasue that way one can clearly see the cause-and-effect relationship beteween the conditional clause and the main clasue. 1. If someone tells you that you may...

Hello td I'm not an expert or a student of linguistics. But we've had a few discussions about modals on this forum, and I've noticed three things: 1. Speakers of different dialects seem to respond differently to the same modal verb. 2. People's sense of 'tense' in modals seems to vary. I find...

I am "Recusant." I'm new to this forum and I don't have password yet so I've signed in as a guest. Your comments on the subjunctive in English suggest that you are attempting to "shoe-horn" English into Latin grammatical concepts. I'm a bit of a linguistic iconoclast when it comes to this sort...

("would" does not form a subjunctive.) Thus, "She wouldn't let me do ..." is equivalent to "She refused to let me do ...". The Volkov: You confused me.. In *all class-books* the subjunctive mood means that speaker is considering an action as suppositional/possible/desirable... And would...

Hello This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations. My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods (indicative/subjunctive) and two...

This hypothesis appears to account for all the examples given so far by JTT, CJ, and MrP: Sometimes 'could' acts without apparent tense.¹ Sometimes it acts as the past tense of 'can'.² Sometimes we have to know the context, to know which kind of 'could' it is.³ ¹ a) 'Could you open the door,...

Previous threads have shown that different people hear conditional and modal verbs slightly differently. I'm happy to stand by this. I would add: Previous threads have shown that different people see conditional and modal verbs slightly differently. And also: Previous threads have shown that...