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Definition of Subjunctive mood

1. Noun. A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible.

Definition of Subjunctive mood

1. Noun. (grammar) Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Subjunctive Mood

Literary usage of Subjunctive mood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the French Tongue: Grounded Upon the Decisions of the French by John Perrin (1832)
"THE subjunctive mood is used after que or gui, preceded by a verb denoting doubt, wish, fear, command, prohibition, &c. such are craindre, prier, douter, ..."

2. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"Meanwhile, most persons will think it well to learn to use the subjunctive mood properly. With that object in view, one can not, perhaps, do better than to ..."

3. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Embracing a New Systematic Order of by Samuel Kirkham (1841)
"The subjunctive mood being more analogous to the indicative in conjugation, than any other, it ought to be presented next in order. ..."

4. A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius by Henry John Roby (1874)
"Of the subjunctive mood and ITS TENSES. i. Of the Mood. THE subjunctive mood, as distinguished from the indicative, mf expresses an action or event, ..."

5. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"Meanwhile, most persons will think it well to learn to use the subjunctive mood properly. With that object in view, one can not, perhaps, do better than to ..."

6. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"Meanwhile, most persons will think it well to learn to use the subjunctive mood properly. With that object in view, one can not, perhaps, do better than to ..."

7. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"In short, the idea of a "subjunctive mood in the indicative form," (which is adopted by Chandler, Frazee, Pisk, S. S, Greene, Comly, Ingersoll, UC Smith, ..."

8. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1856)
"The subjunctive mood is that form of the verb, which represents the being, action, ... The subjunctive mood is always connected with an other verb. ..."

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