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Subjunctive

noun

A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible. Synonym: subjunctive mood.

adjective

Relating to a mood of verbs.

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"Subjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the modern analytic form, the simple form of the past subjunctive derived from the Anglo-Saxon inflectional form, and identical with that of the past indicative, is frequently employed, the context only showing that it is the subjunctive. (See Abbott's ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... for myself. I have not hesitated to speak strongly where I have felt strongly; and I am but too conscious that the indicative and imperative moods have too often taken the place of the more becoming subjunctive and conditional. I feel, therefore, how necessary it is to beg you to forget the personality of him who has thus ventured to address you, and to consider only the truth or error ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... to express doubt, supposition or uncertainty or when some future action depends upon a contingency, it is in the subjunctive mood; as, "If I come, ...

— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin

... hotel, which might be anywhere. A man I crossed with on the steamer took me there. I think I'd move to one of the quieter ones, the French ones, if I were a little surer of my pronunciation and the subjunctive mood." ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... of it before, but on reflection she believed the subjunctive mood was a "sad" one and "if" rather a ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin