"Subjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought. In the clause if he was here, if fully expresses the subjunctive condition, and it is quite unnecessary to express it a second time by using another form of the verb to be. And so the people who are using the English language are deciding, for the subjunctive form is rapidly becoming obsolete ...
— On the Evolution of Language • John Wesley Powell
... developed than in any extant literary Latin. For instance, the imperative mood is used in all cases, permissive as well as jussive, Si nolet arceram ne sternito, "If he does not choose, he need not procure a covered car." The subjunctive is never used even in conditionals, but only in final clauses. Those which seem to be subjunctives are either present indicatives (e.g. escit, vindicit) or second futures (e.g. faxit, rupsit.). The ablative absolute, so strongly characteristic ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell
... matter What her name is, or Daria Or Maria, I would have her Both subjective and subjunctive, She verb ...
— The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria - A Drama of Early Christian Rome • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... Greek, but even of usages which we now know belong to later developments. These later developments, all of which are, to some extent, to be recognized in the Greek Testament, such as the disappearance of the optative, the use of [Greek text] with the subjunctive in the place of the infinitive, the displacement of [Greek text], the interchange of [Greek text] and [Greek text], of [Greek text] and [Greek text], the use of compound forms without any corresponding increase of meaning, ...
— Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture • C. J. Ellicott
... aoristic forms are sometimes very perplexing in Sanskrit. If we find, for instance, stush, we cannot always tell whether it is the infinitive (lusai); or the 1st pers. sing. of the aor. tmanep. in the subjunctive (for stushai), Let me praise (lusmai); or lastly, the 2d pers. sing. tmanep. in the indicative (lui). If stushe has no accent, we know, of course, that it cannot be the infinitive, as in X. 93, 9; but when it has the accent on the ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
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