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  2. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    In the literary language, past unreal conditional sentences as above may take the pluperfect subjunctive in one clause or both, so that the following sentences are all valid and have the same meaning as the preceding example: Si j ' eusse su, je ne serais pas venu; Si j ' avais su, je ne fusse pas venu; Si j ' eusse su, je ne fusse pas venu.

  3. Blonde stereotype - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Stereotypes of blond-haired people Stereotypes of blonde women were exemplified by the public image of Marilyn Monroe. Blonde stereotypes are stereotypes of blonde - haired people. Sub-types of this stereotype include the "blonde bombshell" and the "dumb blonde". Blondes have ...

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Declension - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] As an example, even though both of the following sentences consist of the same words, the meaning is different: [1] "The dog chased a cat." "A cat chased the dog." Hypothetically speaking, suppose English were a language with a more complex declension system in which cases were formed by adding the suffixes:

  9. Hypothetical mood - Wikipedia

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    Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been. [1] For instance, in English, "You know you shouldn't play with knives!