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Subjunctive mood appreciation thread Anonymous Mon May 29 20:40:27 2023 No.22090380 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:41:12 2023 No.22090385 >>22090380 English is not Latin. stop applying Latin grammar terms to English.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:42:30 2023 No.22090386 >>22090385 The subjunctive exist in English too. You have the mind of a nigger.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:42:34 2023 No.22090387 >>22090380 Sounds like English a person of colour would speak

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:43:33 2023 No.22090389 File: 19 KB, 710x683, 1683432556547315.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >sea >soit >seja >sia >sit >sei >be >να είναι

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:44:31 2023 No.22090390 >>22090386 No, it doesn't. there are ways to express, in English, statements that are equivalent to Latin statements written in the subjunctive. This does not mean that English has a special "subjunctive mood."

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:46:13 2023 No.22090398 >>22090385 >>22090390 It is imperative to the formal text that conditionals and hypotheticals be expressed in the subjunctive mood.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:47:23 2023 No.22090400 Wait, redditors really didn't know English has a subjunctive? Can any redditors explain to me why they didn't know that?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:48:13 2023 No.22090404 File: 32 KB, 549x350, tumblr_nsstdxfbjr1trx9e2o1_640.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22090390 Incorrect.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:49:47 2023 No.22090408 >>22090398 No, it is imperative to use the future tense or a modal verb.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:51:26 2023 No.22090414 >>22090408 >future tense English doesn't have a future tense.