After a full-dress review of the subjunctive in the preceding chapters, this form of the English language should no longer hold any terrors for us. With a clearer understanding of its uses and ...

The subjunctive mood, although it only has present-tense and past-tense forms, actually has a more varied and complex grammatical repertoire than the indicative and imperative.

The reason is verbs in the singular third-person subjunctive ignore the subject-verb agreement rule. They drop the "-s" or "-es" at their tail ends and take the base form of the verb (the verb's ...

Form 3’s existence is purely hypothetical, so the subjunctive would be “If there were a Form 3.” Support our coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Opinion ...

Some grammar purists seem to think the English subjunctive is a fragile creature in danger of extinction. As usual they can’t tell their adjective from their elbow, says Geoff Pullum.

I begin this lesson on a difficult grammatical concept called the “subjunctive mood” with a memory of one of the first pornographic films I ever saw. It was called “The Secret Lives of Romeo ...

The verb to be has a special subjunctive form, see below: The school governors insisted that he resign from his post as deputy head immediately. They suggested that Mrs Giddy be appointed as ...

By the end of the 20th century it was firmly associated with Americans who, wrote Kingsley Amis, a novelist, “often indulge in subjunctive forms”. What a strange fate.