Subjunctive Mood Essay

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Term paper A Functional Analysis of the Subjunctive Mood in Modern English YEREVAN-2013 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Chapter 1: Theoretical Approaches to the Subjunctive Mood………………………..... 5 Chapter 2: Functional analysis of the Subjunctive Mood in Modern English ….. 13 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 23 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………………………... 26 "The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible." W. Somerset Maugham Introduction There are many controversial and not thoroughly investigated issues in the English grammar. Nevertheless, in my opinion one of the most difficult and not clear both from the point of view of its definition and description and from the point of view of its practical implementation in speech is the subject of the Subjunctive Mood. Even the name of this grammatical category seems ambiguous in term of its being approached and characterized by different outstanding linguists in the world. In grammar, mood is a category of verb use , typically expressing fact (indicative mood) , command (imperative mood) , question (interrogative mood), wish (optative mood) or conditionality (subjunctive mood). (Pearsall . J. 1998 : 1849) . Subjunctive mood - that will be tackled in this paper - in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary is defined as : that mood of a verb used to express

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