Subjunctive

Definition

subjunctive /sǝb'dʒʌŋktÇv/ n ( grammar ) (က) the subjunctive [U] မွန္းဆခ်က္ပံုသဏၭာန္ျဖင့္ ေဖာ္ျပေသာ ႀကိယာပံုစံ။ I wish you were here တြင္ ‘were’ သည္ ယင္းပံုစံျဖစ္၏။ (ခ) [C] ယင္းပံုစံရိွေသာ ႀကိယာ။ adj ယင္းပံုစံရိွေသာ(ႀကိယာ)။ the subjunctive mood. Compare IMPERATIVE n ၂, INDICATIVE ၂, INFINITIVE

Examples

1. ‘French also has the option (which exists also
2. but very marginally
3. in English) of the embedded clause appearing in the subjunctive mood.’
4. ‘In English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements
5. the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood
6. and the imperative mood to express a command.’
7. ‘If on the other hand
8. a logophoric pronoun/long-distance reflexive and subjunctive mood are deployed
9. it indicates that the speaker does not take the responsibility for the truth of the report.’
10. ‘But the real conundrum in the characterization offered above lies in the presumed subjunctive tense.’
11. ‘In English
12. such verbs have largely replaced the subjunctive mood
13. and three kinds of modality can be distinguished for them.’
14. ‘Outside we few
15. we happy few conservative intellectuals
16. use of the subjunctive in spoken speech has pretty much died out.’
17. ‘Because I have been using English naturally for the best part of sixty years I have stopped thinking about the construction of sentences (gerunds
18. subjunctives
19. conjunctions and prepositions
20. and all that).’
21. ‘Again
22. as in the case of muncho
23. haiga
24. the present subjunctive of the verb haber
25. is also an archaism still found in many dialects of Spanish.’
26. ‘Today we're going to go over the subjunctive and indicative as most of you didn't seem to understand that.’
27. ‘Milton's speech here is full of subjunctives and conditionals which reinforce the dream's and the muse's role of masking the direct activity of the speaker.’