subjunctive

Speech parts

1. subjunctive - Noun

2. subjunctive - Adjective

Meaning

Subjoined or added to something before said or written.

The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.

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Examples

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. Alan Bennett

We who scream exist ecstatically. We stand out beyond ourselves, we exist in two dimensions. The scream implies a tension between that which exists and that which might conceivably exist, between the indicative (that which is) and the subjunctive (that which might be). John Holloway

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact. Donna Leon

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. Mark Twain

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive. Robertson Davies

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