the subjunctive by attraction is the situation when the verb in a relative clause or a temporal clause that is closely dependent on a subjunctive verb...

it were an ordinary indicative verb. Often in English the subjunctive can be translated by an infinitive; for example, imperāvit ut īret (literally, 'he...

main tenses of the indicative mood, there are four main tenses in the subjunctive mood and two in the imperative mood. Participles in Latin have three...

and most subordinate verbs in indirect statements use the subjunctive mood. Subjunctive mood tenses are divided into two groups, primary (present and...

the present subjunctive sim, sīs, sit. In poetry the subjunctive fuam, fuās, fuat also sometimes occurs. An alternative imperfect subjunctive is sometimes...

to be written by you." In late classical and Medieval Latin, the ACI gradually gave way to a construction with quod with the subjunctive. Iūlia dīcit quod...

expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions from; with, by; and in, at. It is sometimes called the adverbial case, since phrases in the...

original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. In modern usage, the term is also used more...

sentence, the imperfect subjunctive vellem is used to wish for something that cannot now come true, while the present subjunctive velim leaves open the...

languages. In Antiquity and during the Middle Ages they were usually represented by Roman numerals in writing. Latin numeral roots are used frequently in modern...

there are four tenses in the subjunctive mood, and two in the imperative. Further tenses can be made periphrastically by combining participles with the...

a declension. There are five declensions, which are numbered and grouped by ending and grammatical gender. Each noun follows one of the five declensions...

enemies". A common feature of Latin is hyperbaton, in which a phrase is split up by other words: Sextus est Tarquinius "it is Sextus Tarquinius". A complicating...

some general conditions the subjunctive mood is used in the protasis. Ideal and unreal conditionals use the subjunctive in the protasis, and usually...

'subjunctive' mode for reported questions. In reports of statements or ideas and in statements of facts known by others, the subject is represented by...

conjunction is cum, it is in the subjunctive. But if the clause is part of indirect speech, the verb is nearly always in the subjunctive mood. The conjunctions...

The term alliteration was invented by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), in his dialogue Actius, to describe the practice common in Virgil...

Seneca's letters. Every long sentence can be divided into sections called by the Greek word cola (singular colon), in Latin membra (singular membrum);...

/nəkloˈnɛnijɐ/) shared by most other European languages – indicative (изявително, /izʲəˈvitɛɫno/) imperative (повелително /poveˈlitelno/), subjunctive (подчинително...

circumstances, may have two high tones in adjacent syllables. In the subjunctive tí-téngésé 'we should sell', both tí and té- have underlying high tones...

grammar, and helped to distinguish singular adjectives from plural and subjunctive verbs from indicative. No other work prior to Chaucer's is known to have...

wast, thou hadst, thou couldst Note also the agreement shown by to be even in the subjunctive mood. However, for nearly all regular verbs, a separate thou...

with it the anticipated consequences. In this wider sense, the term "subjunctive conditional" is sometimes used instead of "counterfactual conditional"...

three persons. There are two moods: indicative and imperative but no subjunctive. There are two tenses: the present, which is used to express future events...

(1894). "English Words which hav Gaind or Lost an Initial Consonant by Attraction". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 25: 111. doi:10...

are present also in the use of finite moods as the imperative and the subjunctive and even the optative of wishes in independent clauses. So, in cases...

Another peculiarity appears in the third person plural of the imperfect subjunctive in the Marinese dialect (the endings '-ino' and '-ono' are still used...