In Abbreviations^x, Subjunctives^x

Hi, It's important to have good friends bc.without them we would feel as if something is/was missing in our lives. Say the subjunctive 'were'. It's hypothetical. If you want to abbreviate words, why not write It's imptnt to hv gd frds bc.wtht thm we wd fl as if smthng...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

Lovek: I didn't say neither that it is incorrect to omit "should" nor that this phrase is not self-dependent and is just an abbreviation of "... that he should save". It's just my intuitive view of it. Ok, they are two different phrases. But do their meanings have at least subtle differences?...

Alienvoord said, a few posts ago, that there is no past subjunctive in English.Very interesting, because I had a discussion with Slava Chetin (a Russian who unfortunately doesn't seem to participate any more) who claimed that the subjunctive existed only in the past! His view was that a...

I had never given it much thought, but I guess it could be. Imperative is a mood, though, rather than a voice. Or it could be an abbreviation of "(may s/he) rest in peace." (This would be the subjunctive mood, however.)