One of my favorite things about the subjunctive is that people who know nothing about it — who’ve never even heard the term — use it with great skill all the time. “In 2010, the Institute of Geriatric ...

For grammar bullies “the subjunctive” is sacred ground. Reforms proposed for the British national curriculum in 2012 required teaching use of the subjunctive not later than sixth grade. People seem to ...

The reason is verbs in the singular third-person subjunctive ignore the subject-verb agreement rule. They drop the "-s" or "-es" at their tail ends and take the base form of the verb (the verb's ...

AFTER our rigorous three-part review of the subjunctive, this form of the English language should no longer hold any terrors for us. But even with a good grasp of the subjunctive, we must remain ...

It is often bemoaned in Britain that English is going to pieces—and Americans are generally to blame. Whether you call it decline or not, the moaners are on to something: America has indeed produced ...