Verb personal endings, shown in Table 3, are of two types: (1) the indicative set applicable to the present, the preterite, and the imperfect, and (2) the
subjunctive set specific to the
subjunctive present.
Regarding the modal means used in conditional protases, in Old English, the verb may occur both in the
subjunctive and in the indicative (Visser 1966: [section] 880), with the latter being the more common mood (cf.
While it is undoubtedly the case that these various forms of Lovecraft fandom serve as a means of entertainment while also providing members with a sense of camaraderie, such activities, I argue, can also be viewed as serving another very specific function for members of the Cthulhu Mythos fandom: the creation of a
subjunctive "as-if" world that makes sense out of the turmoil and confusion encountered in everyday life.
[Use the
subjunctive mood because I am not you.] Another form of the
subjunctive uses be instead of the regular verb forms: I be, you be, he/she/it be, we be, you be, they be.
However, our claim is that the mental representation underlying these conditionals is different depending on whether the conditional is combined with the indicative or
subjunctive mood.
It is worth highlighting that modern inflected languages that have the
subjunctive allow using the past form of a verb as the base for the
subjunctive in the present context, cf.
Were rules for the use of the
subjunctive suspended?
In sections on grammar, parts of speech, and special topics, it discusses such matters as capitalization, sentences, pronouns, adjectives, verbs in past time, the passive voice, the
subjunctive mood, prepositions, conjunctions, discourse markers, numbers, telling time, talking about the weather, and common forms to avoid.
"If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating." The sentence is technically a
subjunctive conditional, with the additional complication that its main clause is either wishful or hortatory, bordering on what in some languages would be called the optative, yet also taking the form of what grammarians categorize as an imperative.