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subjunctive mood
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Noun1.subjunctive mood - a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
subjunctive
modality, mood, mode - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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Thus it defends the position that the Present-day English subjunctive is non-finite, if finiteness is equated with the capacity to license independent sentencehood.
Finiteness, subjunctives, and negation in English by Anderson, John M. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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