Sentence examples for argument in the subjunctive from inspiring English sources

This is an argument in the subjunctive mood.

In this landscape, all action takes place, at best, in the subjunctive, the provisional, the halfhearted.

The unbuilt city hovers alongside present-day New York, existing only in the subjunctive tense: the city that coulda-woulda-shoulda been.

"If the author of this text was born in America, I would be very much interested to hear his/her defense of 'had had', except in the subjunctive.

"Mr. Palmieri, you can't make history in the subjunctive".

Perhaps it would be less misleading if you wrote this in the subjunctive.

The materials for Experiment 2a were 24 conditional statements, 12 in the indicative mood and the past tense and 12 in the subjunctive mood and the past tense.

Then the final part is the dependent clause, which is the verb conjugated in the subjunctive.

To conjugate in the subjunctive, you take the yo form of the verb, then replace it with the opposite ending.

"demanded" is in the past tense; "attend" is the present tense verb - it is in the subjunctive mood.

However, since most verbs are in the subjunctive mood, I recommend that mood be an occasional inflection as apposed to an elemental one.