Sentence examples for subjunctive from inspiring English sources

Sábado Gigante's skits and segments are so over-the-top that it doesn't matter whether we've lost our ability to conjugate verbs into the subjunctive mood, for instance – we will still get the basics and other family members can fill us in on any nuances we missed.

"And the publishers laughed at me – a subjunctive in the title!" But it was Debt: The First 5,000 Years, published in 2011, that made him famous and has drawn praise from the likes of Thomas Piketty and Russell Brand.

"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.

We offer every attention to your prescious chicks including drunken orgeys wiches sabbaths every form of the subjunctive in fr. or lat.

It may be that a bit of swagger helps in maths, where confidence plays a part in boys' lead (though it sometimes extends to delusion: 12% of boys told the OECD that they were familiar with the mathematical concept of "subjunctive scaling", a red herring that fooled only 7% of girls).

Oh yes, from Zell Miller in 2004.Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our commander-in-chief.Elections are subjunctive: If I were president.

The subjunctive-historical notion of harm does not, however, provide a reason for objecting to cancellation of preconception testing.

But if pregnancy testing is cancelled this will be worse for the children who are not treated the subjunctive-historical notion of harm applies.

According to the second view, the threshold notion of harm and the subjunctive-historical notion can be combined.

Adopting either the diachronic or the subjunctive-historical notions of harm excludes the possibility of our harming future people when we choose among long-term policies with significantly differing consequences for the quality of life of future people.

Adopting either the diachronic or the subjunctive-historical notions of harm or both excludes the possibility of our harming future people when we choose among long-term policies with significantly differing consequences for the quality of life of future people.