Example Sentences

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“What Slavic 101 couldn’t name didn’t exist,” Batuman writes; Nina’s reality remains untroubled by conditionals and subjunctives.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2017

Lennon's future changed the world of subjunctives and, as for me, it seems I have done rather well out of charm alone.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2014

Bereft at my determination to be cheerful and my reluctance to get on with grim Latin subjunctives, he wrote: "Charm alone will not get him through."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2014

My knowledge of subjunctives failed long ago and my old schoolmaster has now joined Virgil and the subjunctives across the River Styx.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2014

But these verbs express strong wish or desire and by some grammarians are called "optative subjunctives."

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd