This week is a simple shout-out to all those English speakers and writers who carefully and faithfully use the subjunctive mood. Although relegated to the past tense of “to be” and to sentences containing trigger words like “recommend,” “suggest,” “required,” and so forth, the subjunctive mood is still important in relating a hypothetical or mandative feel to a sentence.
I recommend English speakers/writers be ever prudent in maintaining this dying mood. If English were to lose it, then English would be slightly less dense and expressive.
Check out these websites if you be insatiably subjunctive:
