In Bryan A. Garner's "Dictionary of Modern American Usage", the set phrase "suffice it to say" is explained to be the subjunctive form of the indicative "it suffices to say". The article on the subjunctive mood in

Hi. Can you tell me what triggers the subjunctive mood in your sentence in your mind? Your sentence in the previous post: Thanks in advance for your efforts to ensure that the article include (as I direct you to do) properly cited quotations.

Interesting. If you are thanking someone, then I assume they have already accomplished the task. That puts everything into the indicative mode, I'd say. Thanks for your efforts to ensure that the article includes (as it now does, due to your

I'd say the intention in all three of these is simple present plus present subjunctive: His wife's family prefer he not come , but the "would" form is considered more polite.

admonish that never takes the "scolding" aspect, as far as I know. Instead, from what I've found using Google, it is always advisory or cautionary. In your example, I would put it in the subjunctive, thus: Her father admonishes that

The first sentence seems like a kind of stream of consciousness to me. This technique is employed by some writers. I get this impression because from a strictly grammatical viewpoint, the sentence is ungrammatical in that there is a comma between

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is

. And good evening from Yokohama! The grammar is fine. Here's what the Columbia Guide has to say about the saying: if (when) worse (worst) come(s) to worst These clichés are variations of the same locution (sometimes the article the is

"Corpora" - that is large collections of various kinds of text, such as newspaper articles, fiction, scientific articles, recorded conversation and radio programmes - show that as a past subjunctive "was" is a very frequent

I remember listening to a radio programme about the varieties of forms of speech in Italy ... They simply change language like they change clothes without worrying about the status of their "home" speech. There's some truth in that