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I am indeed trying to help you, and I'll try once more and then be done. The last two examples that you quote fromWikipedia are not in the subjunctive. Subjunctive is a verb form. Both are merely adverbial clauses of purpose (the conjunction is 'so that'), and both must include the auxiliary...

HelloI have trouble explaining modal auxiliaries to German speakers.He must be drunk.to put this into the past = He must have been drunk. She should see the doctor.this into the past = she should have seen the doctor.But ....He can play the pianointo the past =? #1. he can have played the...

Ritwik06 wrote:Sentence: Put your tools away, people may fall over them. Instruction: (Use "lest") My Answer: Put your tools away lest people may fall over them. Is my answer grammatically correct? Has "lest" been used in a proper way? In its subjunctive use, the sentence without the...

Mister Micawber wrote:Future Simple (I will sit)Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)Future Perfect (I will have sat")Present Simple (I sit)Past Simple (I sat)Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)Past Perfect (I had sat)Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

well not really you see this is not a case of subjunctive....as i said in my first postr (cite fowler here)...there is no sequence of moods in english... therefore, for example, we do not say "if i were to say i were happy" we say, instead, "if i were to say i was happy..." you...

i can't seem to find a hard-and-fast rule for a situation like this: "I wish I could say (that) I was happy" (if the speaker is attempting to express that he/she IS NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW) would it be incorrect to express this as: "I wish I could say I'm happy".... one hears this sort of thing...

I am studying the verb "wish". It is often followed by a clause in the subjunctive mood. I wonder only state verbs can appear in the clause in the past form, while action verbs must be proceded by a modal auxiliary verb. I wish that I were a bird. (1) I wish that I flew. (2) I wish I...

Wenwen wrote:1. One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly. ＞ Can you tell me the meaning of the underlined words and the usage of this structure?S may as well do X as do Y=For S, to do X is the same as to do Y. Wenwen wrote:2. Heaven "be" praised. ＞ What’s...

Mary Ansell has a chapter on the subjunctive mood at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch09.html. One of the complications in using the subjunctive is the fact that, besides hypothetical condition clauses, which require the subjunctive, there are factual condition clauses that do...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood' for...