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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
question on subjunctive
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00 I was checking out the us.geocities.com website for its help on subjunctive online and came upon these two sets of examples and want to ask you the question "What is the relationship between 'may' and 'might' and also between 'will' and 'would' to make the second sets appropriate to be used as reported modal verbs?" 02 br
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00 -- John said, "The pupils 01 i 01 font 00 may 00 02 font 02 i 01 b 00 go 02 b 00 home earlier this afternoon" 02 br
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00 -- John said that the pupil 01 i 01 font 00 might 02 font 02 i 00 01 b 00 go 02 b 00 home earlier that afternoon. 02 br
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00 -- The teacher said, "The best students 01 i 01 font 00 will 02 font 00 02 i 01 u 00 be rewarded 02 u 00 ." 02 br
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00 -- The teacher said that the best students 01 i 01 font 00 would 02 font 02 i 00 01 u 00 be rewarded 02 u 00 . 0-
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00 I was checking out the us.geocities.com website for its help on subjunctive online and came upon these two sets of examples and want to ask you the question "What is the relationship between 'may' and 'might' and also between 'will' and 'would' to make the second sets appropriate to be used as reported modal verbs?" 02 br
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00 -- John said, "The pupils 01 i 01 font 00 may 00 02 font 02 i 01 b 00 go 02 b 00 home earlier this afternoon" 02 br
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00 -- John said that the pupil 01 i 01 font 00 might 02 font 02 i 00 01 b 00 go 02 b 00 home earlier that afternoon. 02 br
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00 -- The teacher said, "The best students 01 i 01 font 00 will 02 font 00 02 i 01 u 00 be rewarded 02 u 00 ." 02 br
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00 -- The teacher said that the best students 01 i 01 font 00 would 02 font 02 i 00 01 u 00 be rewarded 02 u 00 . 0-
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0 One of the functions of 01 i 00 might 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 would 02 i 00 are as past forms of 01 i 00 may 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 will. 02 br
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0 Beleiver 02 br
00 Your sentences haven't got anything to do with subjunctive. 02 br
00 Subjunctive borders some kind of imagination. 02 br
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00 If I were you I would study Esperanto. [ This sentence is subjunctive.] 0-
00 Your sentences haven't got anything to do with subjunctive. 02 br
00 Subjunctive borders some kind of imagination. 02 br
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00 If I were you I would study Esperanto. [ This sentence is subjunctive.] 0-
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0 These are all composite subjunctives, using modals (may/might/will/would) for auxilliaries, but many people don't recognize them any more. 02 br
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0 Sorry. Let me make a correction. It should be "its help on 01 u 00 reported speech 02 u 00 ," not on 01 u 00 subjunctive. 02 u 00 0-
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