Crossword clues for subjunctive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subjunctive \Sub*junc"tive\, n. (Gram.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.
Subjunctive \Sub*junc"tive\, a. [L. subjunctivus, fr. subjungere, subjunctum, to subjoin: cf. F. subjonctif. See Subjoin.] Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
Subjunctive mood (Gram.), that form of a verb which express
the action or state not as a fact, but only as a
conception of the mind still contingent and dependent. It
is commonly subjoined, or added as subordinate, to some
other verb, and in English is often connected with it by
if, that, though, lest, unless, except, until, etc., as in
the following sentence: ``If there were no honey, they
[bees] would have no object in visiting the flower.''
--Lubbock. In some languages, as in Latin and Greek, the
subjunctive is often independent of any other verb, being
used in wishes, commands, exhortations, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mood employed to denote an action or state as conceived and not as a fact," 1620s, from earlier adjectival use of subjunctive (1520s), from Late Latin subiunctivus "serving to join, connecting," from subiunct-, past participle stem of Latin subiungere "to append, add at the end, place under," from sub "under" (see sub-) + iungere "to join" (see jugular). The Latin modus subiunctivus probably is a grammarians' loan-translation of Greek hypotaktike enklisis "subordinated," so called because the Greek subjunctive mood is used almost exclusively in subordinate clauses.
Wiktionary
a. (context grammar of a verb English) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. n. 1 (context grammar uncountable English) The subjunctive mood. 2 (context countable English) A form in the subjunctive mood.
WordNet
adj. relating to a mood of verbs; "subjunctive verb endings"
n. a mood that represent an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible [syn: subjunctive mood]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "subjunctive".
One might suppose that only scarecrows could knot themselves so inextricably, that only scarecrows would have the power to crawl into their own viscera, that scarecrows alone could give the subjunctive body within and clothing without.
The imperative or the subjunctive mode, for instance, are the form of a particular signified, different from the meaning: the signified is here my will or my request.
This is why some linguists have defined the indicative, for instance, as a zero state or degree, compared to the subjunctive or the imperative.
Watanabe, can you explain the difference between the English subjunctive present and the subjunctive past?
I always thought of things like the subjunctive case and differential calculus and chemical symbols as totally useless.
English subjunctive is, and not one of them gave me a good, clear answer like yours.
As you may recall, the subjunctive mood is required when writing of an event or an act not as fact but as contingent or possibly viewed emotionally, as with doubt or desire.
Her body, the blank subjunctive tense that he has conjugated in a thousand unsupported persons, has walked through his door tonight.
The sentence broke loose utterly, wandering among intricacies of grammar and subjunctive moods that took his breath away as he poured it out.
But since -- according to the statutes -- the scarecrow mirrors the image of man, there must be similar walking subjunctives on the sunlit surface of the earth.
Genoese conjugates his patois verbs, with subjunctives and all things of that handsome kind, lacked by the English of Universities.
Whig country-homes, sinister chateaux, Adriatic villas, Hungarian hot springs, Danish harems in the Turkish style, not one of their owners having hir'd him out of respect for the Dragon, nor for what he could do or find out or even tell them, when 'twas not innocently to indulge a fascination with the exotic, 'twas to permit themselves yet one more hope in the realm of the Subjunctive, one more grasp at the last radiant whispers of the last bights of Robe-hem, billowing Æther-driven at the back of an ever-departing Deity.
With Indians all 'round them, the Warpath a-tremble with murd'rous Hopes, its emptiness feeling more and more unnatural as the hours tick on, into the End of Day, as the latent Blades of Warriors press more closely upon the Membrane that divides their Subjunctive World from our number'd and dreamless Indicative, Apprehension rising, Axmen deserting, the ghosts of '55 growing, hourly, more sensible and sovereign, as unaveng'd Fires foul the Dusk, unanswer'd mortal Cries travel the Forests at the speed of Wind.
Señor Rawcliffe quiere que tu, listed canta, cante, subjunctive there somewhere, whatever it is.
He is become the central subjunctive fact of a Faith, that risks ev'ry-thing upon one bodily Resurrection Wouldn't something less doubtable have done?