"If you knew what I had gone through, you would surely pity me." Don't listen to these people. You can change it to "have" because only the first verb has to be in the subjunctive mood. The verb "knew" is

It can be put in present perfect and past perfect using "if" like this: If the train have already left , we shall/will take the next train. (formal present perfect subjunctive) If the train had already left , we should/would

In choice English, it is preferable to say "I were" when you are talking about something that is not true: If I were handsome (I'm not); If I were the president (of course, I'm not); If this were the year 1930 (it's actually

Now if I look up "are," the dictionary tells me that it is the present plural of "be." But what I would expect is that it would tell me that it is the present plural of "am" or "is" because those are the

epistemic deals with acquiring knowledge "epistemology" and metaphysical is beyond the physical so ethereal ghostly

Being from another planet (technically the moon), the above situation does not apply to me. However, during a conversation with an Earthling cat, I encountered an example of the subjunctive mood. Since from what I understand, an Earthling cat

Hi p0101 and welcome to English Forums. "Were" is the past tense of "are." I am I was You are You were He is He was We are We were They are They were Sometimes we use something called the subjunctive. Usually

Perfect, grammar book- English = I wish I WERE there. You are NOT there. You are only wishing. Use subjunctive WERE; Good, conversational English (even used in writing by some educated people) = I wish I WAS there.

I wish I WERE doing that = subjunctive = only a wish; I wish I WAS doing that = everyday conversational English used by many (most?) native speakers nowadays. Since you are a language learner, it would be helpful to use the "correct"

From Wikipedia: "In grammar, the subjunctive mood is a verb mood typically used in dependent clauses to express wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or statements that are contrary to fact at present... The