Chapter I. General information about grammatical categories of verb in english grammar 6

Subjunctive I So be it. Long live the Queen.
Subjunctive II If I had / had had time
Conditional I would go / would have gone there
Suppositional I demand that he should be present
These moods are distinguished on the basis of meaning which is coloured by
the linguistic environment of the forms, i.e. these are ‘modal’ varieties of the
subjunctive mood.
Subjunctive II and Conditional are used in a conditional period. They have
two forms – either homonymous to Past Indefinite and Future-in-the-Past, or to
Past Perfect and Future-Perfect-in-the-Past. Prof. Khlebnikova analyzed the morphological system of the English verb on the basis of oppositions. She paid proper attention to the fact that all these forms are united by one meaning – that of unreality. Since the meaning is one, but forms are different, she made the conclusion that there is only one oblique mood presented by two subtypes.
Subjunctive II and Conditional are more important than the other two
because they are indispensable and sufficient in the system, that is, one cannot do
without them, but can easily do without the other two. Subjunctive II and
Conditional express the same meaning and don’t exist independently, so they can
be united into one mood. Prof. Khlebnikova called this mood Conjunctive.
Subjunctive I and Suppositional are on the periphery of the system. The former is a remnant of history. It has fallen out of the system and is used in restricted contexts, such as religious hymns, slogans, etc. The latter is a new formation that has not entered into the system yet. It is used in specific syntactic structures, eg., after verbs ‘demand’, ‘suggest’, etc. Another indication that Subjunctive I and Suppositional are on the periphery of the system is that they are synonymous and interchangeable in the structure.
To sum up, the category of mood is represented by two oppositions: the indicative mood and the spective mood. The indicative mood is the basic mood of the verb. Morphologically it is the most developed system. Semantically, it is a fact mood; it is the least subjective of all the moods. The spective mood, which includes the traditional imperative and the subjunctive mood, represents a process
as a non-fact, i.e. as something imaginary, desirable, problematic, contrary to
reality. The imperative variety of the spective mood is morphologically the least
developed mood: it is only expressed by the bare infinitive form.