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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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be he alive or be he dead...

1b01font00be02font02b00 he alive or 01b01font00be02font02b00 he dead...02br
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0 Present subjunctive.0-
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01cite10Bokeh12cite10Present subjunctive.12blockquote
10I thought that didn't exist in English. 0-
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0 Can anyone else shed some light on this. 0-
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0Hello Anon,02br
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00In the same way that you can invert a past subjunctive:02br
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001. If he were here now, he would do X => 02br
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001a. Were he here now, he would do X.02br
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00you can invert a present subjunctive:02br
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002. If he be alive, or if he be dead, I'll grind his bo
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