Farewell, subjunctive mood. Nice to have known you. This year's obsequies are prompted by editorials in two respected journals. In February, The New York Times discussed the proposed merger of two ...

The present subjunctive tense is used to express doubt, possibility, requests, and after verbs of emotion. It is also used after certain phrases like 'cuando' and 'para que'.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes about Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark Roy Peter Clark, a writing guru at the Poynter Institute, writes this week about a grammar subject near and dear to my heart: the ...

The subjunctive actually acts in several other baffling ways in addition to this deviant behavior, thus making its usage even more confusing to many people. To increase our confidence in using the ...