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Hi, Here goes the long story... Yesterday, I was talking with a girl from England who's been living here for nearly a year. She told me she was looking for an organization to join here, and on the basis of her background and beliefs I suggested she should join an Italian organization against...

Hello... Can somebody help me this? "I hope you'd be successful." (would be...) Is this correct? Because I know the subjunctive hope can also work with the modal verb would, meaing that the speaker is expressing the suppostional and unreal nature of that hope. Please help me. I am...

It's not subjunctive. It's the modal use of need . Modal need can occur in non-assertive contexts. Modals never take the s in the first person singular of the present tense the way non-modal verbs do. In that way they resemble subjunctive forms, which are also missing the s . The...

Yankee wrote: Yes, Taka, that's how I see it. Thank you, Amy! Marius Hancu wrote: I see where Yankee's coming from and there's some argument for it, but the would at the end of the sentence is decisive, IMO: it's subjunctive because it's a hypothetical situation: MH, For your information:...

Thank you for helping me out or trying to help me, Mr. M. As to your request for the online source of that kind, how about Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia? On its article on the Subjunctive Mood, under the sub-heading of "Construction using a modal verb," it gives four sentences: I recommend...

Hi, It has been shown to me that the subjunctive can be created using modal verbs like 'shall' and 'should' and 'may' and 'might'. Are the modal verbs in parentheses optional or they should be in the sentences for the subjunctive to exist? 1. I recommend that he (should) be put in jail....

Hi, I was checking out the us.geocities.com website for its help on subjunctive online and came upon these two sets of examples and want to ask you the question "What is the relationship between 'may' and 'might' and also between 'will' and 'would' to make the second sets appropriate to be...

Taka wrote: Remember, just because the modal verb 'would' appears in the main clause, this doesn't mean that the verb in the if clause must be in the subjunctive if the content of that clause is not presupposed to be false. The above is related to the following example sentence: ...

Yankee wrote: Hi Taka In case you haven't found this yet, here is a link to what the American Heritage Book of English Usage has to say about the subjunctive: http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/061.html Good, Yankee. Thanks for the URL. And I was particularly interested in these parts....

Julielai wrote: Just out of curiosity, Mr. P, how do you distinguish a native speaker who's learned a non-standard form of English from a decent non-native speaker? (e.g. How can you tell if a speaker born in India, Singapore or other Asian countries is native?) Hello Julie ...