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According to some linguists, the subjunctive is disappearing from American English.— Epinions Recent Content for Home
When he tries to teach them the imperfect subjunctive, and creates long, seemingly strange sentences to illustrate the rule, the students bombard him with complaints: '
TRANSIERITIS.= In early Latin this would necessarily have been a perfect subjunctive, the future perfect indicative being transieritis with the second 'i' short; but after Ennius and Plautus the forms (like -erIs and -eris)_) are used indifferently, according to metrical necessity.— The Last Poems of Ovid
To farm was an occupation easily parsed--subjunctive mood, past tense, passive voice!— Deep Furrows

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