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Rommel Posted 11 years ago
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s 'come' in the subjunctive mood in the given sentence?
Is 'come' in the subjunctive mood in the following sentence? (I often come across a sentence like this when I read office documents.) Somebody (who's not a native speaker) has told me that 'come July 25' in this sense means 'on July 25.'
Come July 25 the personnel officer evaluates your performance.
Come July 25 the personnel officer evaluates your performance.
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Rommel Is 'come' in the subjunctive mood in the following sentence? It's probably some remnant of an expression that used the subjunctive in older forms of English, but it's hardly a central case of the use of the subjunctive in modern English. , you can't make more patterns like it.
- Rommel Is 'come' in the subjunctive mood in the following sentence?
- It's probably some remnant of an expression that used the subjunctive in older forms of English, but it's hardly a central case of the use of the subjunctive in modern English.
- , you can't make more patterns like it.
- It applies to nothing else but time.
- CJ
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RommelIs 'come' in the subjunctive mood in the following sentence?It's probably some remnant of an expression that used the subjunctive in older forms of English, but it's hardly a central case of the use of the subjunctive in modern English. It's more easily analyzed as a special idiom because the pattern is not at all productive in modern English, i.e., yo
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I remember a rather heated discussion in another forum some years ago. Some of us argued that come in come 
was effec
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fivejedjonSome of us argued that come in come ( time ) was effectively a preposition in modern English.I would not object to that analysis. In fact, I almost said so in my previous post.
CJ
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