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Re: Subjunctive?

Your sentences are not very good English as they contain grammatical mistakes. If I understand you right, you are asking whether need not + infinitive is a subjunctive. No, it isn't. Need in the present tense can be made negative in two ways:1. He need not go there.2. He doesn't need/have to go...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Cool Breeze 1 yr 82 days ago Tenses Past tenses Negatives Present tenses Subjunctives Inflections
Re: question on subjunctive again

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...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Bokeh 1 yr 109 days ago Verbs Negatives Subjunctives
Re: suggest

Hi TAll are correct. After suggest you can use should + infinitive or the present subjunctive. The present subjunctive is made negative in the same fashion as an infinitive, in other words, by placing not before it (#4).CheersCB

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 1 yr 121 days ago Negatives Subjunctives
Re: subjunctive

Inchoateknowledge wrote:I cannot build in this component in a way that it work(s) well. Is it correct? The subjunctive mood we use when wishing to express wishes, desire, possibility, judgement etc.I am not sure you can have the subjunctive here this way. You'd have to change the phrasing...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 1 yr 243 days ago Negatives Subjunctives

Re: Should it be in the subjunctive?

Opportunity vs. chance You may want to buy this dictionary: Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words very good for such comparisons, which says: ----------- Chance...

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Re: Could you check the quality of the question, Please?

Davkett wrote:I probably would have picked B for grammatical correctness. I don't like the inclusion of 'do' if the answer is to be A. "The curriculum requires that they not restrict..." sounds better to me. Someone might argue that for B, 'do' would have to be 'did', but I don't think...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 2 yr 103 days ago Negatives Subjunctives
Re: Subject and Verb

The sentence is in a subjunctive form, so you don't add -s to "support." The subject of support is the server. The subjunctive is used in formal English when we wish to express the importance of something. It usually follows verbs like recommend, insist or suggest,...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Optimus 2 yr 136 days ago Verbs Negatives Subjunctives
Re: The use of hope

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 3 yr 133 days ago Grammar Verbs Difference between Constructions Clauses Nouns Pronouns Negatives Predicates Subjunctives Nominative English grammar Accusative
Re: The Subjunctive - is it or not?

I thought that it was in the subjunctive because it contained a notion in the subordinate clause that was either false or at the very least subject to doubt. There were two things that led me to believe this. The first was numerous references similar to the following passage: "Webster's New...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by christophe 3 yr 166 days ago Grammar Verbs Clauses Negatives Subjunctives
Re: Negative in subjunctive

'She begged that he not leave her' 'I suggest that you not take the job.' 'They recommended that your friend not leave the house.' 'He asked that she not leave him.' 'She begged him not to leave her.' 'He asked her not to leave him.' The first four use the subjunctive form, the last two do not....

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 3 yr 298 days ago Verbs Negatives Subjunctives