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Your American colleagues must all speak the same dialect, but the dialect they speak is apparently not the same as mine. What part of the US are your colleagues from? - The doctor recommended (that) he lose weight. ( lose = subjunctive) - The doctor recommended losing weight. - The doctor...

Hi Anonymous, the reason is simple. After verbs like "thought", or "knew", etc., using the past tense is idiomatic. That's why you should say: I thought they were going to play! (not ...they are going...) Who would have thought he was a communist! (not ...he is a...

is totally dependent on context, rather than the tense of any verbs in the if clause ? And would that make a difference between your example and mine? Best regards, - A. Edit, note - Amy offered an analysis of "If I am" as being equal to "Whenever I am" in a different...

Your sentence is type 2 conditional sentence. Hence the if-clause is in the past tense and the main verb is in the 'conditional' tense. However, the past tense in this is not a real past tense, it is a subjunctive. Therefore, this refers to present or future time. If you use...

Hi Pructus, What you have is a sentence that belongs to a group whose content clause expresses commands, requests, or suggestions. This type of clause often uses the present subjunctive mood and follows a group of verbs like: ask, demand, insist, mandate, propose, suggest, recommend,...

Recently, I've heard this sort of theory so I'm gonna share this with you and want to hear your opinions as well. It's about categorizing the language into "Objective or Subjective (not she, her ..)" depending on the meaning . 1. Objective meaning : do (perfect...

Thank you, Mr. M. As you seemed to have said, the notion of urgency doesn't bring on the need for the subjunctive. How about this? Is this (case of an implied ordering??) in the subjunctive mood? Nice work, John, it is all for today. You be here at 9 tomorrow to work on what is left . OK,...

Anonymous wrote: Thank you all for your replying to my stupid question. I really appreciate it. Hi Anon, In contrary, I don’t think your question is stupid. It brings up an issue that has stirred many good discussions in this forum and elsewhere. Here is an extracted...

Oh No! This is one of those subjunctive uses which can optionally be replaced with indicative mood. Do a search on the Forums site for "subjunctive." There's been a whole rash of it lately. ( Should be would also fit your example.) As you can see, subjunctive mood switches around some of the...

Anonymous wrote: Hi, I usually edit some of the stuff my coworkers write around here, I believe I have good knowledge of what I'm doing but now I doubt it because of a document I'm reading right now... This is how it reads (in many paragraphs): "It is recommended that the agency...