By Learning English, Subjunctives

Hi,... and somebody says it's subjunctive. See also:http://www.englishforums.com/English/ChangingTenses/dqcdx/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichSentencesAreCorrect/zjbhp/post.htm

Yoong Liat wrote: 1. She walks as though she is drunk. 2. She walks as though she was drunk. 3. She walks as though she were drunk. What is the difference between the three sentences? I believe #2 and #3 have the same meaning. This website may be helpful in answering your...

Anonymous wrote:Hi!I'm trying to explain the following concepts to someone learning English, but I'm not sure how. Can anybody help me? 1. "There is only one person who can help me when I'm feeling sad, and that would be my mother."She's confused by 'that would be my mother.' It means...

Question and Answer in an online site Which is grammatically correct: "I wish I were you" or "I wish I was you"? Older, prescriptive grammar books insist on the use of the subjunctive form "were". Most modern, descriptive grammar books accept both "were" and "was" as being grammatically...

Hello MrP In the Japanese conditionals, we change the apodosis' expressions according to conditionals' reality. In the case the conditional is known to be rather unreal, we use an expression similar to English modal constructs in the apodosis, and when we judge neutrally about the possibility of...

Hello people I don't like to talk much about the subjunctive stuffs because it sounds difficult to find agreement between 'prescriptivists' and 'descriptivists'. (But I would like to say that, if I were a young ESL student, I certainly would choose prescriptivists as my English teachers because,...

To keep up the actual aim of the thread: Another problem that I had while learning English was the backshift of tenses in Indirect Speech. While in German you would always use the subjunctive when you want to express something in Indirect Speech, in English you've to backshift every tense. This...

Hi NCJ Try the following to books: Basic English Grammar - Betty Schrampfer Azar Essential Grammar in Use - Raymond Murphy Good luck with your Spanish-learning. Enjoy the verb conjuagtions and especially the Subjunctive! Que te vaya bien!