Re: English Subjunctive
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 2, 2003, 1:06 |
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In a message dated 11/1/2003 6:07:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
hotblack@FRATH.NET writes:
>The subjunctive is introducing a relative clause in your sentence:
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> I wish
> (that) he would stop talking.
Although that's plainly some kind of subordinate clause, I don't think it's
strictly speaking a relative clause.
"That" here is usually considered a subordinating conjunction, unlike in "I
need a sweater that will keep me warm," where "that" is a relative pronoun.
Doug
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