By Nouns, Subjunctives

Well can someone will explain why should we use subjunctive mood here. Although must show strong believe and intention but i've barely read or heard anyone using subjunctive with "must". Please explain GB

Hi, Please help. 1. Should the sentence below be in the subjunctive? I got the idea for this sentence while studying at the edict.com.hk website. I would not ncecessary be sad, even if I was (were???) the poorest. 2. Also, at the forementioned edict.com.hk website, I think I was looking at...

whether you can use the subjunctive after "require" I think you can just barely get away with it. The more frequent construction is She requires him to attend the conference. And even that sounds a bit stilted. requirement, the noun, sounds more natural with the subjunctive, but this...

They are insisting he go/goes to Athens. It is advisable that he spend (not spends) the summer holidays with you.As a footnote: in British English, the present subjunctive is much less common than the indicative in such structures; though curiously, in the last 10 to 20 years, it has become...

The names we give grammatical categories are important for our understanding of how they work. Calling pronouns adjectives is confusing because pronouns don't function like adjectives. Of course the exact labels don't matter too much, what matters is that we have described the grammatical...

Anonymous wrote:Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request +...

Alienvoord wrote:thanks CB. The labels may not be important, but if we are to understand the structure of English, it's important to understand that the verb form used in your first example has a quite different distribution from the forms in your second and third examples. Calling them...

Sorry for butting in. You know what! We’re only taught to learn it by rote this list of nouns and verbs “demand, proposal, suggestion; suggest, advise, order, command, insist, require, request……” And are never told the semantic meaning in common of all these words. “Envisioned act” has never...

Mister Micawber wrote:In all indicative mood sentences, it is a singular pronoun taking the singular verb. The example that you have exhumed, however, is a use of the subjunctive were used in conditional sentences stating a present condition contrary to fact (the trophy is not in fact the...

In all indicative mood sentences, it is a singular pronoun taking the singular verb. The example that you have exhumed, however, is a use of the subjunctive were used in conditional sentences stating a present condition contrary to fact (the trophy is not in fact the speaker's). Were appears...