| 单词 | subjunctive |
| 释义 | subjunctive (once / 10525 pages) adjn The subjunctive is a verb mood that expresses a possibility. Subjunctive phrases often begin with the words, "If I were..." "If I were President, I would make school illegal!" That sounds like something a little kid would say, and it's in a verb mood little kids probably can't name yet: the subjunctive. The subjunctive mood applies to conditional sentences, such as "I wish the new Batman movie were in theaters now." Thoughts expressed in the subjunctive mood are usually possibilities or desires — they aren't facts. People often use the subjunctive to talk about what they wish were true. WORD FAMILYsubjunctive: subjunctively, subjunctives USAGE EXAMPLESIf I had wanted to learn grammar all day, students fume in the past subjunctive, I would have been a linguistics major. Slate(Nov 28, 2016) Most of the subjunctives that people actually know and use, in fact, are frozen phrases—many of them religious. Economist(Sep 08, 2016) Emerging technologies exist, at least in part, in the subjunctive realm of the future and the possible. Slate(Sep 08, 2016) 1adj relating to a mood of verbs subjunctive verb endings 2n a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible Syn|Hyper subjunctive mood modality, mode, mood verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
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