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  2. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    Examples include discussing hypothetical or unlikely events, expressing opinions or emotions, or making polite requests (the exact scope is language-specific). A subjunctive mood exists in English, but it often is not obligatory. Example: "I suggested that Paul eat an apple", Paul is not in fact eating an apple.

  3. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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    In modern English this is identical to the past indicative, except in the first and third persons singular of the verb be, where the indicative is was and the subjunctive were; was is sometimes used as a colloquialism (were otherwise preferred), although the phrase if I were you is common in colloquial language. For more details see English ...

  4. English subjunctive - Wikipedia

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    The English subjunctive is realized as a finite but tenseless clause.Subjunctive clauses use a bare or plain verb form, which lacks any inflection.For instance, a subjunctive clause would use the verb form "be" rather than "am/is/are" and "arrive" rather than "arrives", regardless of the person and number of the subject.

  5. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    Examples include discussing imaginary or hypothetical events and situations, expressing opinions or emotions, or making polite requests (the exact scope is language-specific). A subjunctive mood exists in English , though it is not an inflectional form of the verb but rather a clause type which uses the bare form of the verb also used in ...

  6. Hopi time controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Hopi language, spoken by some 5,000 Hopi people in the Hopi Reservation in Northeastern Arizona, is a Native American language of the Uto-Aztecan language family. [15]In the large Hopi dictionary, there is no word exactly corresponding to the English noun "time."

  7. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Perceived violations of correct English usage elicit visceral reactions in many people. For example, respondents to a 1986 BBC poll were asked to submit "the three points of grammatical usage they most disliked". Participants stated that their noted points "'made their blood boil', 'gave a pain to their ear', 'made them shudder', and 'appalled ...

  8. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    The results showed that they perform quite differently from, for example, an English speaking person who has a language with words for numbers more than two. For example, they were able to represent numbers 1 and 2 accurately using their fingers but as the quantities grew larger (up to 10), their accuracy diminished.

  9. Old English subjunctive - Wikipedia

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    One use in modern English is to state conclusions contrary to fact, as in the example from the song If I Were a Carpenter: "If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway?" - the use of the subjunctive were (compared with the indicative was) implies that the speaker is not a carpenter.