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subjunctive


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subjunctive  \Sub*junc"tive\,  n.  (Gram.) 
  The  subjunctive  mood;  also  a  verb  in  the  subjunctive  mood. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  subjunctive 
  adj  :  (grammar)  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}] 




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