There have been various approaches in the literature to the questions of whether the English subjunctive is a separate mood (conceived of as an inflectional form), and whether subjunctive verbs and/or clauses should be regarded as finite or non-finite. In this article I discuss these issues, and I will argue that the properties of the English subjunctive can be accounted for by recognising a subjunctive clause type, characterised by a number of distinctive syntactic properties.