| 单词 | subjunctive |
| 例句 | There is no distinctive subjunctive form in English; the construction just uses the unmarked form of the verb, such as live, come, and be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When we’re in this iffy mood—the subjunctive mood, if you want to be technical—was becomes were. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate this, one has to get straight what the subjunctive is, because most people, including traditional grammarians, are confused about it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes they call be the “present subjunctive” and were the “past subjunctive,” but in reality there’s no difference in tense between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I went downstairs again, and back to the subjunctive verbs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes into French class, Madame O’Malley was conjugating the verb to believe in the subjunctive. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “The past knows no subjunctive mood,” he told The Moscow News in 1987. Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78 2010-05-26T15:59:00Z I read “Cien Años de Soledad,” conquered Ferdinand and Isabella, and mastered subjunctive verbs. My daughter can’t be average 2012-10-22T01:00:00Z Outsiders to academic linguistics are often shocked that there is debate on basic facts like what the subjunctive is. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Major bits of grammar—like the existence of a subjunctive—are usually a lot more visible than this. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The subjunctive is used to describe a state of affairs that isn't the case. Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z The English “were” is the runt of the subjunctive litter, used on just one verb, just some of the time, and not by everyone. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The author has to sneak away from his seat to consult Reagan letters, diaries and biographies to fortify what is essentially a subjunctive enterprise. Watch One With the Gipper: An Aide Recalls Movie Nights With the Reagans 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Other grammarians call this the English present subjunctive, and say that “if he were” is the past subjunctive. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Forget the imperfect subjunctive: I would much rather be able to understand these gags about horrible racists. 'Can Tony Soprano make me a better parent?': the lessons we've learned from lockdown TV 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In “Amalgamemnon,” narrated by a literature professor about to lose her job, Ms. Brooke-Rose uses only verb forms — including future tense and subjunctive mood — that conjure conditions unobtainable in the present. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z And some experts reckon this is not a subjunctive at all. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z That wasn’t the case because the statement in question was formulated vaguely and in the subjunctive, noting that the evaluation was based on initial information and further clarification was in progress, the court found. Court rules Austria can’t be held liable for early COVID infection at ski resort 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z After I dropped the subjunctive and began to talk about when she died, a barrier was eliminated. Perspective | How I learned to talk about death and dying 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z This second modality, as my Spanish teacher explained it, was called “the subjunctive.” Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z These new thoughts flooded in, leaving little room for concerns about Othello’s motivation or the subjunctive in French. ‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Sophomore Year in a Pandemic 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “Here we catch a glimpse of the subjunctive in a conditional protasis shyly rising its timorous head above the narrative parapet.” Ashes 2019: England v Australia fourth Test, day two – live! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z They are also so process-oriented, so action-driven, that they seem in some sort of continuous temporal motion, existing simultaneously in multiple tenses: present and past, conditional and subjunctive. Gravel, glass and glaze: The radical ceramics of Masaomi Yasunaga 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z I used to think I was pretty great at French: I could handle a subjunctive and disdained the myriad mangled pronunciations of “millefeuille” on Masterchef. 'Victor Hugo becomes a sex god in my mind' – how to get better at French 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Encountering Hartman’s work, I began thinking of these messages as portals into my subjunctive. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z His father, a professor of Romance languages, used to critique his judicial opinions and urge him not to sully the subjunctive. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z When Trump speaks in the subjunctive mood, he can certainly sound like an aspiring dictator. Donald Trump, American hustler: The frightening fascist tendencies of his GOP rise 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z For this hypothetical condition, use the subjunctive: “if he were to ‘drop dead.'” Journalese: The Sequel 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In the advanced seminar at Kanatsiohareke, Mina Beauvais, whose Mohawk name is Tewateronhiakhwa, was teaching students the optative, an arcane mood, akin to the subjunctive, that exists in Kurdish, Albanian, Navajo, Sanskrit, and ancient Greek. Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Rather than seeking closure, the subjunctive animates an abundance of questions to which we may never know definitive answers. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z This is not a contrary-to-fact or hypothetical condition, so there’s no call for the subjunctive. Tricky Little Things 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Like the subjunctive mood, the pronoun "whom" is widely thought to be circling the drain. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z You are justifiably proud of your elegant Spanish subjunctives and facility with algorithms. Dear (Female) Grads: You’ve Learned How to Be Perfect. Now Change. 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Bereft at my determination to be cheerful and my reluctance to get on with grim Latin subjunctives, he wrote: "Charm alone will not get him through." Should charm be taught in schools? 2014-03-13T01:19:47Z A subjunctive mode of inquiry uses narrative “both to tell an impossible story and to amplify the impossibility of its telling,” Hartman writes. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z What this means is, actually, they can't construct sentences involving subjunctive clauses since their sense of grammar has been corrupted by acid flashbacks from the 1960s. How 'thank you' fell out of fashion 2013-07-17T16:58:44Z Fallen subjunctive Misplaced modifier Dangling participle It's the third one. 10 questions on grammar 2013-05-13T23:56:09Z It is a morgue of daft subjunctive journalism. Eurozone crisis: the bankers are happy to play Nero as Europe burns 2012-07-31T20:00:01Z Lennon's future changed the world of subjunctives and, as for me, it seems I have done rather well out of charm alone. Should charm be taught in schools? 2014-03-13T01:19:47Z To approach all of the above, in the subjunctive, is the closest approximation to peace I can imagine. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Here is one of many examples from the research: In one study, English speakers who spoke Spanish as a second language were tested on their ability to use the Spanish subjunctive in conversation. The wrong and right way to learn a foreign language 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z The first is now generally employed as a present subjunctive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The trend of sequence is from the primary tenses of the indicative through subjunctive and optative in that order to the past tenses of the indicative. A Greek Primer For Beginners in New Testament Greek 2012-03-30T02:00:17.703Z My knowledge of subjunctives failed long ago and my old schoolmaster has now joined Virgil and the subjunctives across the River Styx. Should charm be taught in schools? 2014-03-13T01:19:47Z To live in the subjunctive is a manner of seeing the past not as a fixed story but as one that the present continuously acts upon. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The subjunctive is of interest as it is considered a difficult structure to master. The wrong and right way to learn a foreign language 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z Be is used as a form of the present subjunctive: ½But if it be a question of words and names.¸ Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z In fact, however, the Homeric subjunctive is almost quite “regular,” though the rule which it obeys is a different one from the Attic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The words came so unexpectedly that he forgot their subjunctive mode. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z That’s another thing about the subjunctive: There’s always enough time there. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Factors in the acquisition of the present subjunctive in Spanish: The role of reading and study. The wrong and right way to learn a foreign language 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z The modes, or moods, that every one should be able to distinguish are the indicative and the subjunctive. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z It will be evident that under this rule the perfect and first aorist subjunctive should always take a short vowel; and this accordingly is the case, with very few exceptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The pronunciation, as it happens, is just what I’m most at home in; if he had said my genders or my subjunctives or my idioms there would have been some sense. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The body cannot live in the subjunctive, unfortunately. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The so-called imperfect subjunctive turns out to be a verbal noun with a preposition. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z There are some careful writers who still use the present subjunctive to show a possibility; as, Lest he start too late, remind him again that he must meet the 4:15 train. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z If there be ghosts—blessed are the grammarians who invented a subjunctive mood—those of martyred students of science will one day haunt you, more terrible than 'an army with banners.' A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Grammatically, a considerable licence is observable in the use of the indicative for the subjunctive, as, for instance, after si forsitan and nedum. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z In español class, I’d learned to invoke the subjunctive when speaking about uncertainties in life, events that may occur in the future. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z In many American languages the hypothetical supposition expressed in the Latin subjunctive is indicated by the same circumlocution. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z The new missal restores the meaning — but unfortunately it butchers the poetry by ramming the Latin subjunctive into English: "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof." Catholic Controversy: Is 'Being' Superior to 'Substance'? 2011-04-14T08:30:00Z The future for the present indicative or subjunctive.—Be careful not to imitate English in using the present or subjunctive for the future. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Gossip in all its moods and tenses, from the vague indicative of mere innuendo, to the full subjunctive of open defamation! The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Hartman, however, applies the subjunctive to critical examinations of the archival past. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z In similar manner the substantive verb is used to form a tense of the subjunctive. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Imagine yourself endeavoring, through the flighty visions of a wandering intellect, to find out the subjunctive mood or the past participle, and almost forgetting the torment of your gout in the terrors of your grammar! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Its inflections are -as present, -is preterite, -os future, -us conditional, -u imperative and subjunctive, -i infinitive, together with the following participles:— Active. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Very many of the Greek "genitives absolute," we remember, were to be rendered by quum, with a subjunctive pluperfect—an enormous mystery to us at the time. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Reading her work, I began to understand the power of the subjunctive to unsettle historical narratives. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It may also be that when it is combined with other tenses, the notion among these nations is altogether a substantial one, as we have already seen with the subjunctive. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z After chapel came French recitation, and the Disappointed One was wrestling in melancholy fashion with the imperfect subjunctive, when a maid appeared at the door. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z Whether plants or mountains or mollusks or subjunctive moods or tribal confederacies be the things studied, the scholars who have studied them most fruitfully were those who have studied them as phases of development. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Shall he put the subjunctive or the indicative? John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced These messages turned the grammatical subjunctive into a way of being in the world: September was the month when our baby would have been born, if I had carried to term. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The subjunctive of this substantive verb is given as ri, “if I were.” The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Surely any tune—even "Man the Life-boat"—would become valuable if it could clear up the bogs of the subjunctive. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu “You know, you might need it,” he was very grave in his use of the subjunctive. The Orphan He has learnt his grammar: he could, if occasion required, recite the rules that apply to the employment of the terrible subjunctive mood. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced For me, the subjunctive allows room for our impossible story, one in which we are a family of three — mother, father and child. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Why is a door always in the subjunctive mood? The Handbook of Conundrums "If it should rain cats and dogs,"—is a phrase which is in many mouths; but probably no one has heard it transferred from the subjunctive to the indicative mood. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series His mood was subjunctive, full of doubt and uncertainty. The History and Records of the Elephant Club We didn't mention trees, or wood, or even the conditional subjunctive. The Kenzie Report Account for the subjunctive; cf. page 2, note 7. Aus meinem Königreich All of the savage beauty of the lines was lost on them, floundering in the maze of ablatives, subjunctives and the like. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children Whether the statement refer to a fact or not, whether the subject-matter be vouched for by the reporter, as regards its objective reality and truth, the subjunctive does not tell. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary He serves you in the present tense; He lends you in the conditional mood; Keeps you in the subjunctive; And is apt to ruin you in the future! Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order The subjunctive mode of the verb to be is used to express a condition contrary to fact, or a wish. The Century Handbook of Writing Lengthening of the vowel in the subjunctive, iv. Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV Essays chiefly on the Science of Language It is most commonly found in clauses beginning with if, though if is not to be regarded as the sign of the subjunctive in any such sense as to is the sign of the infinitive. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Only the present indicative and subjunctive are at all irregular: Indicative. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary In France the use of the imperfect subjunctive is given up by the lower classes and by foreigners, but in Portugal the peasant has still deeper subtleties of speech at the end of his tongue. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Dr. Aorist, on the other hand, believes that a sound knowledge of "qui with the subjunctive" is a splendid sheet-anchor for every squall in life's rude sea. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Can you not, in the face of this so beautiful landscape, get rid of your eternal subjunctive mood? Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 The subjunctive mood is less used in modern than in old English. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses The irregularities occur in the present indicative and subjunctive: Indicative. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The distinction between the subjunctive and indicative mood is likely to pass away. A Handbook of the English Language Now the instructors of youth seem to regard the works of the tuneful Mantuan as composed for the purpose of illustrating the use of the Latin subjunctive. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland There are several explanations of it; mine is Alexander the son's fondness for the correct subjunctive. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The subjunctive were should be used in purely hypothetical clauses such as "If I were in your place." Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Either mood, indicative or subjunctive, would be legitimate. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Be is inflected in Anglo-Saxon throughout the present tense, both indicative and subjunctive. A Handbook of the English Language No proper moods are known, but subjunctive or conjunctive forms are formed by adding a final n, as dakusat, "I am looking at it"; dakusadan, "if I see it." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" His use of the subjunctive did not escape me. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 There are three moods, the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses I use the subjunctive—"if no man have done nothing," an ordinary transcriber, narrating a quotation almost always lets his own habit write has. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Again, from the idea of futurity we get the idea of contingency, and this explains the subjunctive power of be. A Handbook of the English Language This tense is seldom used as an auxiliary, and is often confused with the subjunctive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature These men make the subjunctive heroes of the world. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Mlle. de la Boise, surnamed the Grammar Dragoon; she used to be a governess, and she will correct you during a conversation if you make a slip with the subjunctive mood. Renée Mauperin The use of the subjunctive with when and until, now obsolete, was correct English until the present century was some thirty years old. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow If he speak, as opposed to if he speaks, is characterized by a negative sign only, and consequently is no true example of a subjunctive. A Handbook of the English Language The ordinary dependent clause introduced by a conjunction has its verb in the indicative, unless the so-called subjunctive is required to express uncertainty or contingency, without reference to any preceding conjunction. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature On the absence of umlaut in the pret. subjunctive of certain types of verbs, see § 10, note. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition In the subjunctive of be, it will be noted that the form be is used throughout the present tense; and the form were throughout the past tense. Practical Grammar and Composition There is no trace of any inflection corresponding to this meaning, as we find with the subjunctive. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Be, as opposed to am, in the sentence if it be so, is a fresh word used in a limited sense, and consequently no true example of a subjunctive. A Handbook of the English Language The Optative re wŏffen, etc. seems to be formed on the imperfect mixed up with the subjunctive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature No wonder that in such circumstances parents in conjugating the verb in question pass from the subjunctive mood to the indicative, and from the indicative to the imperative. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony But when the sense of the statement shows uncertainty in the speaker's mind, or shows that the condition stated is regarded as contrary to fact or as untrue, the subjunctive is used. Practical Grammar and Composition Meanwhile, most persons will think it well to learn to use the subjunctive mood properly. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The only true subjunctive inflection in the English language is that of were and wert, as opposed to the indicative forms was and wast. A Handbook of the English Language There is some confusion in modern Cornish about the subjunctive or fifth tense. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature It is difficult to say whether the scribes were more prone to influence by the subjunctive normal in classical Latin prose, or by the indicative of the Romance languages and of ecclesiastical Latin. The Last Poems of Ovid Note the two sentences following, in which the conditions are properly in the subjunctive: If those statements be true, then all statements are true, Were I rich, I might be charitable. Practical Grammar and Composition An intention not yet carried out is also subjunctive: 'The sentence is that you be imprisoned.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Now an action, wherein there enters any notion of uncertainty, or indefinitude, and is at the same time connected with another action, is expressed, not by the indicative mood, but by the subjunctive. A Handbook of the English Language Norris considers that Lhuyd’s subjunctive is really, except for the third person singular, the imperfect or second tense of the older MSS. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature But Professor R. J. Tarrant notes that the need for a dependent subjunctive would be more strongly felt with quaerere in these two passages than with the index of the present passage. The Last Poems of Ovid But it must be borne in mind that these do not always indicate the subjunctive mode. Practical Grammar and Composition The only correct form of the future subjunctive is—'if I should.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Simple uncertainty will not constitute a subjunctive construction,—I am, perhaps, in the wrong. A Handbook of the English Language There is rather a confusion of the subjunctive and imperfect, and the two are used rather indiscriminately. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Not all poets were as strict as Ovid in using the subjunctive in indirect questions. The Last Poems of Ovid Note.—An examination of the model conjugations under §77 will give a further understanding of the forms of the subjunctive. Practical Grammar and Composition The past subjunctive may be expressed by an inversion: 'Had I the power,' 'were I as I have been.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. And a conjunction that connects an uncertain proposition with a certain one, may be said to govern a subjunctive mood. A Handbook of the English Language In older Cornish the present, whether in its inflected, impersonal, or auxiliary form, was commonly used to express a future, and sometimes the subjunctive was used as a future. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature To farm was an occupation easily parsed—subjunctive mood, past tense, passive voice! Deep Furrows The subjunctive is usually preceded by the conjunctions, if, though, lest, although, or the verb precedes the subject. Practical Grammar and Composition The English idiom appears sometimes to permit the use of an indicative where we should expect a subjunctive form. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Between certain relative pronouns and those particular conjunctions that govern a subjunctive mood there is also a point of connection. A Handbook of the English Language The terminations ma and ta are often added to the first and second persons singular of various tenses in interrogative and subjunctive sentences, and in the case of the first person even in ordinary narration. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature No man could have laboured more to make himself master of the niceties of the Gallic idiom, and the right use of its very doubtful subjunctive. Rattlin the Reefer What is the general rule for the use of the subjunctive mode? Practical Grammar and Composition The one form is said to be in the indicative mood, the mood that simply states or indicates the action; the other form is in the subjunctive, conditional, or conjunctive mood. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Wherever the person, or thing, connected with an action, and expressed by a relative is indefinite, there is room for the use of a subjunctive mood. A Handbook of the English Language Lhuyd’s change of the first person singular to am instead of av is not uncommon in certain verbs of late Cornish, when this tense is used in a subjunctive clause. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature At times, such as when he describes the preterit subjunctive as agueta raba, his divisions fly in the face of derivational history. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language How do other verbs differ in the form of the subjunctive? Practical Grammar and Composition The mood is called 'subjunctive,' because the affirmation is subjoined to another affirmation: 'If I see the signal, I will call out.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In most conditional expressions the subjunctive mood should follow the conjunction. A Handbook of the English Language This tense is used rather as a conditional, I should be, or a subjunctive after pan, when, mar, if, etc. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The most significant difference between the two systems is the use by Lebrija of the term subjunctive in his description of the moods where Rodriguez gives independent status to the conjunctive, conditional, concessive, and potential. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The use of the subjunctive depends on Page 63 whether the condition is regarded as a fact or as contrary to fact, certain or uncertain. Practical Grammar and Composition Moreover, such a mood would have itself to be subdivided into indicative and subjunctive forms: 'I may go,' 'if I may go.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The use of the word that in expressions like I eat that I may live, &c., is a modification of the subjunctive construction, that is conveniently called potential. A Handbook of the English Language But it seems to be more like a form of the present indicative, except in the third person singular, which is the old subjunctive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The perfect and the pluperfect of the subjunctive are formed from these same tenses in the indicative with the addition of the particle reba; e.g., agueta reba 'since he had offered.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language It should be added that the subjunctive is perhaps going out of use; some of the best writers no longer use its forms. Practical Grammar and Composition The sense that something is wanting appears to have led many writers to use indicative forms where the subjunctive might be expected. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In the Greek language this is expressed by a difference of mood; the subjunctive being the construction equivalent to may, the optative to might. A Handbook of the English Language She—" "Doesn't think dancing and French and manners are any good at all," sobbed Rosalie, mentioning the three branches in which she excelled, "and I think they're a lot more sensible than subjunctives. Just Patty The negative subjunctive is formed by changing the u which ends the negative present to eba; e.g., agueneba 'since he did not offer.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language This passing of the subjunctive is to be regretted and to be discouraged, since its forms give opportunity for many fine shades of meaning. Practical Grammar and Composition The meaning intended is probably—'as I do not know whether they have or not,' and therefore the subjunctive 'have' is preferable. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. When in doubt, mind that practically everything in an examination governs the subjunctive. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Often we err in the use of each particle, Seldom observe where our adverbs belong, Wholly misplace the indefinite article, In our subjunctives go hopelessly wrong! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 The remaining tenses of the optative, subjunctive, gerund, and infinitive are formed in the same way and with the same particles as are used for each in the first conjugation. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language There are several modes in English, but only between the indicative and subjunctive modes is the distinction important. Practical Grammar and Composition It is in accordance with good usage to express a future subjunctive meaning by a present tense; but in that case the form must be strictly subjunctive, and not indicative. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. I should think it my duty to learn the subjunctive mood, and that is impossible.” Jerry Junior I should think it my duty to learn the subjunctive mood, and that is impossible.’ Jerry The future of the subjunctive is formed by adding the particle toqi to the future indicative; e.g., ague� toqi 'since he would offer it later.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The places in which the subjunctive differs from the indicative are in the present and past tenses of the verb be, and in the present tense of active verbs. Practical Grammar and Composition There seems to be here a confusion of constructions between the subjunctive co-ordinate with make and the indicative dependent in meaning on “Jove hath sworn” in the following line. Milton's Comus The child used first of all the imperative; last the subjunctive. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. He has discovered that while necesse est may be used indifferently either with the accusative and infinitive, or with ut with the subjunctive, necesse ewat can only be used before ut with the subjunctive. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The present tense of the permissive subjunctive is formed in two ways. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language In what way and where does the subjunctive of be differ from the indicative in its forms? Practical Grammar and Composition ‘Begin’ is subjunctive; ‘turns’ is indicative: the latter may be used to convey greater certainty and vividness. Milton's Comus The modern habit of putting a final e to all subjunctives is due to a false analogy with verbs from the third conjugation. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance In the clause if he was here, if fully expresses the subjunctive condition, and it is quite unnecessary to express it a second time by using another form of the verb to be. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 Part III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with the study of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms. Latin for Beginners The two forms of the subjunctive are distinguished only in composition, and have not yet been clearly understood. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea It of right belongs to both the potential and subjunctive. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Note the old subjunctive without the final e. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance And so the people who are using the English language are deciding, for the subjunctive form is rapidly becoming obsolete with the long list of paradigmatic forms which have disappeared. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 After all, the subjunctive was made for man and not man for the subjunctive. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar The subjunctive without a conjunction is used in simple phrases consisting only of subject and object. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Most grammarians contend for five moods, two of which, the potential or powerful, and the subjunctive, are predicated on the same principles as Mr. Harris' optative, interrogative, etc., which they condemn. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. For the first conjugation making its subjunctive in em, should lose the final syllable in French: a post tonic em always disappears. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance In the subjunctive "u": ke mi parolu, that I may or might speak, the tense being sufficiently indicated by the antecedent verb. Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education It is just the same with compound tenses, subjunctives, participles, etc. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar The present is found in the indicative and imperative modes, the past in the indicative only, and the future in the indicative and subjunctive. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea If, it is said, is the sign of the subjunctive, and may and can of the potential; and yet they are often found together; as, "I will go if I can." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. These made their subjunctive in am, a termination which properly becomes the mute e of French. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance For the imperative we use the subjunctive without conjunction and generally without subject. Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education His verb has four moods; viz., indicative, imperative, conditional, and subjunctive. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens It has its verb in the subjunctive or indicative, followed by the conjunction -ta or sometimes -tamai. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Then, for, hours each day and almost every evening, it was grammar, grammar, grammar, till he wondered at times if all life meant an understanding of the subjunctive. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker This second mode or manner of representing the action, is called the subjunctive or conditional mode. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The main difference is, that the subjunctive has no -s as the ending of the present tense, third person singular; as, "If he come." An English Grammar "She is," said she, "the very apple of my eye, and can parse a sentence containing three double relatives, two subjunctive moods and four nominatives absolute, perfectly easily." The English Orphans The future is formed in the same way from the subjunctive with a stress upon the final a in the first conjugation. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Worth is the old subjunctive present of an exact English equivalent to the modern German werden. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The subjunctive mood being more analogous to the indicative in conjugation, than any other, it ought to be presented next in order. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The English subjunctive, like the Latin, is sometimes used in a clause to express the time when an action is to take place. An English Grammar Cicely, meanwhile, was mounting guard over Allyn's languages, advising, admonishing and often helping him along the devious paths of syntax and subjunctives. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book The candidate had been instructed to write out examples of the indicative, the subjunctive, the potential and the exclamatory moods. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations For these reasons more space is given to the subjunctive in this book than would be called for by a mere discussion of modern English usage. Practical Exercises in English This mood, however, differs materially from the indicative in sense; therefore you ought to make yourself well acquainted with the nature of the indicative, before you commence with the subjunctive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The subjunctive is often found in indirect questions, the answer being regarded as doubtful. An English Grammar She only said subjunctively: "If he were my son, now!" The Mystery of Metropolisville The Subjunctive Mode.+—The subjunctive is disappearing from colloquial speech, and the indicative form is used almost entirely. Composition-Rhetoric Forms of the Subjunctive—In form the English subjunctive differs from the indicative in several ways:— 1. Practical Exercises in English The conjunctions if, though, unless, in the preceding examples, express condition, doubt, &c.; therefore, the verbs study, chide, repent, and had been, are in the subjunctive mood. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures After a verb of wishing, the subjunctive is regularly used in the dependent clause. An English Grammar "A few observations on the subjunctive mood as it appears in our English bible." The Grammar of English Grammars The verb to be has the following indicative and subjunctive forms in the present and preterite:— IND. Composition-Rhetoric The subjunctive idea occurs most frequently, perhaps, in conditional sentences. Practical Exercises in English This tense of the subjunctive mood ought to be called the elliptical future. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The noun clause, in its various uses as subject, object, in apposition, etc., often contains a subjunctive. An English Grammar "There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is a kin to the subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue." The Grammar of English Grammars The subjunctive mode is used most frequently to express:— 1. Composition-Rhetoric Past subjunctive, both clauses: The speaker implies that it is not raining. Practical Exercises in English Now, I hope you will so far consult your own ease and advantage, as to commit, perfectly, the signs of the moods and tenses before you proceed farther than to the subjunctive mood. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This subjunctive is very frequent after verbs of commanding. An English Grammar In these latter instances, the potential present is akin to the subjunctive. The Grammar of English Grammars The tenses of the subjunctive require especial notice. Composition-Rhetoric The past subjunctive denotes a wish for the present which is unfulfilled: as, "I wish I were a bird." Practical Exercises in English Conjunctions implying contingency or doubt, require the subjunctive mood after them; as, "If he study, he will improve." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures At the present day, however, the subjunctive is becoming less and less used. An English Grammar Hence Lowth and others improperly call "I may love," &c. the subjunctive mood. The Grammar of English Grammars "Give me some more examples of the subjunctive, Rebecca, and that will do for this afternoon," she said. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm The forms in "would" and "should" in conditional sentences, though they express the subjunctive idea, can hardly be called the "subjunctive mood". Practical Exercises in English Look again at the conjugation in the indicative present, and you will observe, that the form of the verb differs from this form in the subjunctive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures In spoken English, the subjunctive were is much used in a wish or a condition contrary to fact, but hardly any other subjunctive forms are. An English Grammar The subjunctive mood is that form of the verb, which represents the being, action, or passion, as conditional, doubtful, or contingent. The Grammar of English Grammars Miss Dearborn had not thought of it before, but on reflection she believed the subjunctive mood was a "sad" one and "if" rather a sorry "part of speech." Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm To —— student of Latin or Greek a knowledge of —— difference in meaning in English between —— indicative and —— subjunctive is especially important. Practical Exercises in English The perfect, pluperfect, and first future tenses of the subjunctive mood, are conjugated in a manner similar to the correspondent tenses of the indicative. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures May is used as either indicative or subjunctive, as it has two meanings. An English Grammar I have before shown, that several of the "best ancient writers" did not inflect the verb were, but wrote "thou were;" and, surely, "the analogy of formation," requires that the subjunctive be not inflected. The Grammar of English Grammars The,infinitive is not found; as in Greek, Rumanian and Bulgarian, it is replaced by the subjunctive with a particle. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In the verb "to be" —— present and —— past subjunctives have different forms. Practical Exercises in English I could deceive, is in the potential; If I could deceive, is in the subjunctive mood. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The student has met with many adverb clauses in his study of the subjunctive mood and of subordinate conjunctions; but they require careful study, and will be given in detail, with examples. An English Grammar By some grammarians, the potential mood has been included in the subjunctive, because its meaning is often expressed in Latin by what in that language is called the subjunctive. The Grammar of English Grammars If you deserved it!—Murder!—who knows how that might turn out—if—I don't like that kind of subjunctive mood tenure of a friend. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Some people seem to think that the subjunctive mood is as good as lost, that it is doomed, and that its retention is hopeless. Practical Exercises in English But when a verb in the subjunctive mood, present tense, has no reference to future time, the indicative form ought to be used; as, "Unless he means what he says, he is doubly faithless." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures If its original meaning be closely adhered to, we must expect every dependent clause to have its verb in the subjunctive mood, and every clause not dependent to have its verb in some other mood. An English Grammar His later editions, on the contrary, make the subjunctive exactly like the indicative, except in the present tense, and in the choice of auxiliaries for the second-future. The Grammar of English Grammars Iroquois verbs have three moods, indicative, imperative, and subjunctive; and they have, in the indicative, seven tenses, the present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect, aorist, future, and paulo-post future. The Iroquois Book of Rites The perfect and pluperfect subjunctives are of course formed by means of the subjunctive present and past tenses of "have." Practical Exercises in English The conjunctions if, though, unless, except, whether, and lest, generally require the subjunctive mood after them. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The subjunctive mood is that form or use of the verb which expresses action or being, not as a fact, but as merely conceived of in the mind. An English Grammar Dr. Johnson, indeed, made the preterit subjunctive like the indicative; and this may have induced the author to change his plan, and inflect this part of the verb with st. The Grammar of English Grammars The subjunctive is never used even in conditionals, but only in final clauses. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius NOTE.—It does not follow that the verbs "may," "would," and "should" always express the subjunctive idea. Practical Exercises in English In parsing, the verbs in such constructions may be treated as indicative or potential, with a subjunctive meaning. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition In the following conditional clauses, tell whether each verb is indicative or subjunctive, and what kind of condition:— 1. An English Grammar These are the tenses which are given to the subjunctive by Blair, in his "Practical Grammar." The Grammar of English Grammars The subjunctive forms of the verb to be are retained in the present and the past tense. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Past perfect subjunctive, both clauses: The speaker implies that it did not rain. Practical Exercises in English But these verbs express strong wish or desire and by some grammarians are called "optative subjunctives." Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The subjunctive may represent the result toward which an action tends:— So many thoughts move to and fro, That vain it were her eyes to close. An English Grammar It would, perhaps, be better to abolish the use of the subjunctive mood entirely. The Grammar of English Grammars A majority of modern writers use the indicative forms instead of the subjunctive, in all of the tenses, unless it may be the present. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room The present subjunctive denotes a wish for the future: as, "Thy kingdom come." Practical Exercises in English Beyond these, the subjunctive manner of assertion is discovered from the structure of the sentence or the relation of clauses, not from the conjugation of the verb. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Very many of the sentences illustrating the use of the subjunctive mood could be replaced by numerous others using the indicative to express the same thoughts. An English Grammar But this little word has no more claim to be ranked as a part of the verb, than has the conjunction if, which is the sign of the subjunctive. The Grammar of English Grammars The verb rains is indicative in form but subjunctive in meaning. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room The past perfect subjunctive denotes a wish contrary to a past fact: as, "I wish you had been there." Practical Exercises in English Those English authors and their American copyists who eliminate the Potential Mode from their scheme of conjugation tell us that the so-called potential auxiliaries are either independent verbs in the indicative or are subjunctive auxiliaries. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The three uses of the subjunctive now most frequent are, to express a wish, a concession, and condition contrary to fact. An English Grammar Some writers use the singular number in the present tense of the subjunctive mood, without any variation; as, 'if I love, if thou love, if he love.' The Grammar of English Grammars That past tense, those subjunctives, unconsciously called upon her to feel no intrusion. Miss Lulu Bett Double these for the plural, and we have thirty forms; and that multiplied by the sixteen tenses of the indicative, potential and subjunctive moods gives 480 forms of third person. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author How confusing all this must be to the student, who, in his use of the subjunctive, needs to distinguish only such as these: If he be, If he were, If he teach! Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition It must be remembered, though, that many of the verbs in the subjunctive have the same form as the indicative. An English Grammar The subjunctive of all verbs except be, takes the same form as the indicative. The Grammar of English Grammars "Would you?" asked Bobby—but in the subjunctive. Miss Lulu Bett We may notice, too, that the relative pronoun, unlike the rest, is necessarily syncategorematic, for the same reason as the subjunctive mood. Deductive Logic With the meager instruction given by any one or by all of these authors, the student will find it exceedingly difficult to determine when these auxiliaries are true subjunctives. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Other examples of indirect discourse have been given in Part I., under interrogative pronouns, interrogative adverbs, and the subjunctive mood of verbs. An English Grammar First, the rule for forming the subjunctive is false, and is plainly contradicted by all that is true in the examples: "If thou love," or, "If he love" contains not the form of the indicative. The Grammar of English Grammars "It would mean running away, wouldn't it?" said Bobby, still subjunctive. Miss Lulu Bett When the verb is used 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, he shall remain." How to Speak and Write Correctly As there are three persons in the singular and three in the plural, we have one hundred and fourteen subjunctive forms! Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The sentence broke loose utterly, wandering among intricacies of grammar and subjunctive moods that took his breath away as he poured it out. A Prisoner in Fairyland Thirdly, shall or should can never be really implied in the subjunctive present; because the supposed ellipsis, needless and unexampled, would change the tense, the mood, and commonly also the meaning. The Grammar of English Grammars The preposition fuana to him, to it, in order that, is used as a subjunctive or optative. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands It is formed by means of the auxiliaries may, can, ought and must, but in all cases it can be resolved into the indicative or subjunctive. How to Speak and Write Correctly The forms italicized above are said to be subjunctive auxiliaries; those below are said to be independent verbs in the indicative. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Miss Brewster would have been hard put to it to round out her subjunctive. The Unspeakable Perk "If he shall," properly implies a condition of future certainty; "If he should," a supposition of duty: the true subjunctive suggests neither of these. The Grammar of English Grammars Time and Moods: A subjunctive is formed by ana if, when, followed by the particle ka, or by the use of saea. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands In the subjunctive mood the plural form were should be used with a singular subject; as, "If I were," not was. How to Speak and Write Correctly The subjunctive is frequently used in indirect questions, in expressing a wish for that which it is impossible to attain at once or at all, and instead of the potential mode in independent clauses. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition We should have been greatly surprised by the novelty and the forbidding look of such words in the grammatical jargon as substantive, indicative and subjunctive. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The regular and analogical form for the indicative, is "Thou wast;" and for the subjunctive, "If thou were." The Grammar of English Grammars In her excitement she confused the subjunctive and the imperative, and told him that he “might” go. The Angel and the Author, and others Then came questions regarding the subjunctives;—questions to which very few members of the class gave any real attention. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 This will often serve as a guide in distinguishing the indicative from the subjunctive mode. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The indicative assumption here is, "Though it did thunder," or, "Though there was thunder;" the subjunctive, "Though it should thunder," or, "Though there were thunder." The Grammar of English Grammars But wert is still in use, to some extent, for both moods; being generally placed by the grammarians in the subjunctive only, but much oftener written for the indicative: as, "Whate'er thou art or wert." The Grammar of English Grammars How many and what tenses has the infinitive mood?—the indicative?—the potential?—the subjunctive?—the imperative? The Grammar of English Grammars It seems to me, after much examination, that the subjunctive mood in English should have two tenses, and no more; the present and the imperfect. The Grammar of English Grammars If, though, lest, unless, etc. are usually spoken of as signs of the subjunctive mode, but these words are now more frequently followed by the indicative than by the subjunctive. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition How could "good writers" indite "much" bad English by dropping from the subjunctive an indicative ending which never belonged to it? The Grammar of English Grammars Why then should we make this contraction of the old indicative form werest, a solitary exception, by fixing it in the subjunctive only, and that in opposition to the best authorities that ever used it? The Grammar of English Grammars To neglect the subjunctive mood, or to confound it with the indicative, is to augment several of the worst faults of the language. The Grammar of English Grammars Write the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, present tense, in the three persons singular: serve, shun, turn, learn, find, wish, throw, dream, possess, detest, disarm, allow, pretend, expose, alarm, deprive, transgress. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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