| 单词 | subjunctive mood |
| 例句 | 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Why is a door always in the subjunctive mood? The Handbook of Conundrums 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 Can you not, in the face of this so beautiful landscape, get rid of your eternal subjunctive mood? Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 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 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 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. 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 To farm was an occupation easily parsed—subjunctive mood, past tense, passive voice! Deep Furrows 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 In most conditional expressions the subjunctive mood should follow the conjunction. A Handbook of the English Language "A few observations on the subjunctive mood as it appears in our English bible." The Grammar of English Grammars 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 This tense of the subjunctive mood ought to be called the elliptical future. 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 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 "There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is a kin to the subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue." 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 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 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 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 Hence Lowth and others improperly call "I may love," &c. the subjunctive mood. The Grammar of English Grammars We may notice, too, that the relative pronoun, unlike the rest, is necessarily syncategorematic, for the same reason as the subjunctive mood. Deductive Logic Conjunctions implying contingency or doubt, require the subjunctive mood after them; as, "If he study, he will improve." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It would, perhaps, be better to abolish the use of the subjunctive mood entirely. The Grammar of English Grammars The conjunctions if, though, unless, except, whether, and lest, generally require the subjunctive mood after them. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures I could deceive, is in the potential; If I could deceive, is in the subjunctive mood. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures 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 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 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 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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