Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In the mood

The subjunctive … appears mainly in clauses about hopes, doubts, wishes, demands, proposals & other contexts that are not facts. The present tense of the subjunctive … has the same form as the infinitive of the verb, but without the ‘to’. It takes that form for all three persons, singular & plural …

Thanks to Oliver Kamm in The Times of Saturday 4 June for that.

Next lesson: Imperfect & perfect tenses of the subjunctive

Lesson 3 (advanced students only): the French subjunctive

If I was you I’d give them a miss


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