LESSON FOR 5/31/10

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For claire_chan :

The subjunctive mood, according to my German grammar book (I like how technical the German books get into the subjunctive mood), does not describe actual facts, but possibilities as unreal situations that often depend on some unrealized condition. According to the English grammar book, the use of subjunctive in the English language are

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I LOVE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD!!!! (My 750-word short story in comment)

[claire_chan]

Unfortunately, LJ apologised to me, but the maximum character length for comments is 4300, and I was 19 characters off.

Here is the first part: I have always loved subjunctive mood, ever since I had began studying it my sophomore year of high school. (Sweet! I adore finding methods to throw in pluperfect tense; albeit it is not quite as impressive in English, unfortunately…) If I were able to mash subjunctive into my varied LJ entries or the like more often, I almost certainly would. I do sadly believe that excessive usage of subjunctive mood serves as a warning sign for, unfortunately, “overeducated” students. It unfortunately carries a “prissy, snotty” tone.

Indeed, some of my Latin classmates most definitely were “overeducated” snobs. I am unfortunately thinking of one in particular: I do not recall his Latin name, but we shall refer to him as Tegularius, simply because I will it.

Tegularius sat behind me for Latin II and across the room far away from me for Latin III. He stuck in that seat for also Latin IV. If there were a

REST!

[claire_chan]

No, he has not made mention of any religion, but how he studies Chemical Engineering.

I have made mention in the past that Chemistry is my least favourite science: I most prefer Physics. However, the mathematical part of Physics… I have been tango’ing with that.

In my years of study, I have only made it up to, embarrassingly enough, Pre-Calculus.
The mathematicians have been all very kindly to me; I just continually fail, myself.

One of these days, I shall conquer.