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Thank you We sneak subjunctive allah shmoop if you could

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go anywhere in the world where would you go when

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you go to italy So you could eat your weight

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Gelato What You go to england's you could moon over

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prince harry's Gingery good looks Or would you stay right

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in your seed in english class so you could learn

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about the subjunctive No you chose option three You make

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us feel so special Yeah Sorry In english language verbs

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can be used to communicate moods There are commands of

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imperative mood like when your mom says go to your

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room there are the matter of fact statements of the

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indicative mood Like when you tell your friends i don't

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do anything when i'm in east texas on a saturday

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night Yeah What and then there's the much rarer subjunctive

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mood which conveys something that you wish for or hope

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for or imagine the subjunctive mood is easy to identify

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You can often just look for the following three items

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in a sense the word if followed by the verb

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to be conjugated as war or wass followed by a

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statement including the words could or would with this formula

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your reader will always know when they're in for about

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of wishful thinking got it Well let's look at some

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examples of sense is written in the subjunctive mood If

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gary wasn't failing algebra he would spend his days on

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the beach at galveston guzzling pepsi and working on his

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sunburn This example follows the rule it has an if

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a wasn't and a wood If the girls were able

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they would travel to russia to get a glimpse of

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that dreamy shirtless putin Once again we've got an example

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that follows the formula there's an if a big if

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in this case a word and a wood And besides

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anyone who thinks all vladimir's dreamy is definitely thinking in

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the subjective if we were wealthy we could pull a

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scrooge mcduck and swim in a giant pool of gold

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Yep there they are again the if the wor and

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that could and that's all there is to the subjunctive

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If you have a hope dreamer wish you want to

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write about all you need is the word if followed

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by the verb to be conjugated as were or wass

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followed by a statement including the words could or would

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now if only you could trade in your desk in

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english for a deck chair on the q T too

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