Grammatically, the subjunctive is a verb mood, not a verb tense. Most sentences use the indicative mood; the subjunctive in English has fairly restricted uses. Often, subjunctive forms don't look any ...

Once upon a time, it was weird to drive alone in your car with your lips moving. In the dark days before Bluetooth technology, a jabbering jaw on a bouncing head meant a driver was singing along with ...

In my last column, I wrote about the importance of the subjunctive in Spanish and provided one way to help you understand it (TT,May 25). I suggested that you become aware that the subjunctive exists ...

One of my favorite things about the subjunctive is that people who know nothing about it — who’ve never even heard the term — use it with great skill all the time. “In 2010, the Institute of Geriatric ...

Can you spot what’s wrong with that tweet? Besides the fact that millions of people retweeted a selfie, there’s a rather egregious grammatical error in the first ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Spanish (and other Romance languages) certain predicates select the subjunctive mood in the embedded clause, while others select the ...