Examples of subjunctive

• A survey on the subjunctive, returned by over 600 readers, showed it to be in a state of "active retirement".

• Table 2 shows the number of children passing none, one or both cognitive tests, and the number of subjunctive relatives produced by those children.

• It replaced subjunctive complements to intention-verbs (conatives, desideratives, and their negative counterparts).

• Thus, complements of verbs such as ' hopes ' and ' wishes ' get the subjunctive because the world of somebody's hopes and wishes is not the actual one.

• I am assuming that some subjunctive conditionals with impossible antecedents are non-trivially true.

• If a child may have more occasions to use the subjunctive as it matures, then whatever invites subject deletion may involve more sophisticated social postures.

• Similarly, the verbs in the subordinate clause were considered relevant only if they were in one of the indicative or subjunctive preterit forms.

• She found that of all the opportunities children had to produce a sentence, children used the subjunctive as frequently as the indicative.