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What's the meaning of the sentence?

 
 
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jan, 2013 01:45 pm
@dalehileman,
Experts. What do they know?
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jan, 2013 02:43 pm
@McTag,
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The subjunctive is one murky pool in which I am loath to paddle.


It's not that at all, Sire. You use it all the time with not a thought given to how or why. Now you just have to put your considerable brain towards figuring out those hows and whys.

I must admit that this one form which has no, hmmmmmm ... or little connection to irrealis puzzles me as a subjunctive. I know that it looks like other non irrealis subjunctive forms but hmmmmmm, ... ?????

Quote:
It's like the integration symbol in your math book. It's a signal to turn the page.


Smile
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jan, 2013 05:02 pm
@JTT,

Golly, you changed my spelling. But I meant to write loth. I think loth and loath are interchangeable, at least in this country, and I prefer the former, since the latter too closely resembles loathe, a different kettle of fish entirely.

It's late here, so I may return to the subject of the subjunctive tomorrow.
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jan, 2013 08:07 pm
@McTag,
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Golly, you changed my spelling. But I meant to write loth. I think loth and loath are interchangeable, at least in this country, and I prefer the former,


My bad, McTag. Live and learn. It's also a variant over thisaways.
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jan, 2013 11:24 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:

Experts. What do they know?
I'm trusting Mac that you're right
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jan, 2013 11:25 am
@JTT,
I looked up "subjunctive" then immediately forgot
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yogeshinteractive
 
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Reply Sat 19 Jan, 2013 07:23 am
"When two or more words are combine together and form a sentence"
Sentence is basic unit of language which complete a thought.
The meaning full sentence contain verb subject
There rare a different types of sentence like simple sentence, complex sentence,
compound sentence etc.
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