http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aPresent+simple+tag%3aEssays&tag=Present+simple,Essays&orTags=0Search results for 'tag:Present simple tag:Essays' matching tags 'Present simple' and 'Essays'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3232.18851)http://www.englishforums.com/English/WithoutWill/zvldh/post.htm#440494Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:21:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:440494Mister Micawber<br>We welcome your opinions, Marcelinx, but it is dangerous to try to compare your native language so closely with English-- they do not work the same way.&nbsp; Nor is your logic very careful.<br><br><table width="85%"><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">Well, I certainly hope he helps you.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE><br>There is nothing subjunctive about this.&nbsp; The form of the subjunctive verb-- as you said-- is the same for all persons:&nbsp;<i> I help, you help, he help</i>.<br><br><i>Hope </i>(and it may have been my comments that Kooyeen refers to) indeed is among the verbs that commonly take the present simple indicative for future reference in preference to the 'will' future.&nbsp; Other verbs are <i>see, assume</i>,<i> suppose</i> and a few more (<i>I suppose the train is on time</i>).&nbsp; In addition, there are many more verbs for which the future can be cast as simple present indicative in the subordinate clause.<br><br>The use of the subjunctive in true unreal clauses (<i>I wish I were King</i>) is slowly being superseded by the indicative equivalent (<i>I wish I was King</i>), to the extent that the subjunctive form is needed only on language examinations and English class essays. It is not a matter of who you are speaking to, certainly.<br><br>