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The Use of the Subjunctive Mood in Simple sentences
In simple sentences the synthetic forms of the Subjunctive Mood are more frequent than the
analytical forms.
In simple sentences the Subjunctive Mood is used:
1.to express wish
e.g. Long live our great country!
May our great country live long!
Success attend you!
Long live the republic!
To express wish the analytical subjunctive with the mood auxiliary may is also used:
e.g. May all you dreams come true!
May success attend you!
2.to express an unreal wish:
e.g. If we were cosmonauts!
If only he were free!
3.in oaths and imprecations:
e.g. Confound these flies!
Manners be hanged!
4.in some expressions:
e.g. Be it so! (So be it)
Let it be so!
The Subjunctive mood in simple sentences is characteristic of literary style, except in oaths and
imprecations, which belong to low colloquial style.
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