Re: Subjunctive
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 16:40 |
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Christophe wrote:
> En réponse à "John C." <Grex37@...>:
Can you use it
> > with a
> > past, present, AND future tense (my language has a future tense unlike
> > English)?
>
> Portuguese does it, so you can too ;))) .
Is it actually used, or just a relic in the official grammar books? Spanish
has a future subj. (according to the grammar of the Real Academia, but
unmentioned in teaching grammars)-- amare, amares, amare, etc., app. derived
from the old Latin impf. subj.???? (I don't recall the forms for irreg.
verbs like haber, ser etc, nor whether there is a fut.perf. subj.) I came
across it once, in a legal document. Nowhere else in years of reading.
My initial reaction to John C's question was, no, why bother? His
conditional mood could be adequate. But it seems he wants to have a fairly
complex verbal system, so perhaps OK. Your discussion of the subj. covers
all the bases, but my suggestion would be:
in order to avoid cloning Latin/Romance, devise some unexpected places where
a subjunctive must occur.
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