What are the Grammar Rules that Govern the Subjunctive in English?

• Picon-Jacome, Edgar ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Antioquia

     Universidad de Antioquia

     Colombia

     
• Localización: Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción, ISSN-e 2011-799X, Vol. 6, Nº. 1, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: El papel del traductor y del intérprete en la historia iberoamericana general y cultural), págs. 227-234
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper I intend to walk the reader through some historical changes in form and usage of the English subjunctive mood. Main different changes in time are spotted beginning in Old English, going through Modern English, and finally arriving to Contemporary English. As a conclusion, we can verify the changing nature of language and accept usage and simplicity as the only factors that mandate what is to be considered pragmatically proper or not in a language. This paper might be of usefulness for both translators and English teachers.

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