0 in some languages, a verb form that refers to actions that are possibilities rather than facts:
1 the mood (= form) of a verb used to refer to actions that are possibilities rather than facts:
Table 1 shows that the ability to produce subjunctive relative clauses increases with age.
The study aimed to examine the relationship between children's performance on false belief tasks and their ability to produce subjunctive relative clauses.
Results indicate a strong correlation between children's ability to use the subjunctive mood in relative clauses and their capacity for understanding false beliefs.
Meanwhile, the pluperfect subjunctive continued in its same usage with the morphology cantasses.
A study was designed to test the hypothesis that children's acquisition of subjunctive in relative clauses depends on their representational capacities.
More generally, it seems that subjunctives may be finite or non-finite in the same language, with different interpretations in the two cases.
This has to be formulated in the subjunctive rather than in the indicative, but it ought not to remain a mere wish.
She found that of all the opportunities children had to produce a sentence, children used the subjunctive as frequently as the indicative.
