The Subjunctive mood

I. Comment on the form of the Subjunctive Mood. Define the type of the sentence or its part. Comment on the lexical distribution of the Subjunctive Mood form:

А. 1. Perhaps, under the circumstances, it was only natural that I should dream of Jones. 2. What if the house were closed in darkness? But it was not. 3. But he was gazing past me, keeping his eyes on Robert's blindfold as if he were trying to see his eyes through. 4. "If two tigers jumped on a blue whale, could they kill it?" — "Ah, but that couldn't happen, you see. If the whale was in the sea the tigers would drown straight away; and if the whale was..." — "But supposing they did jump on the whale?" 5. "/ might have missed you but for your orange beret." 6. "It is a pity you've been so far away all this time. I would probably have slapped your face." 7. He realiz­ed as he said this that he would have felt timid at having to address the man. 8. He was so happy he would have walked right back to the main road without knowing what he was doing. 9. "What a good stag! I wish Miss Duni would teach it to me." 10. He said it as if he thought this was a justification for something or other. 11. After dinner it was suggested that they all go somewhere to dance. 12. "What do you want out of life, Brown? I know how your mother would have answer-ed." — "How?" — "She would have laughed at me for not knowing the answer." 13. It was urgent that he find Captax and consult him immediately. 14. She would demand that he have a secretary. 15. "Well, my advice, Honora, is that you go directly to the bank, withdraw a substantial sum of money, and leave the country. 16. Soames saw the Chairman incline his head as if he wanted to shake it. 17. "It's time you two went." 18. I waited by the gangway until he should return. Who wrote to Laura's husband in the first instance? If it hadn't been for you he wouldn't have turned up again. Sometimes I wondered what I should be without him.

B. 1. "People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched." 2....She decided to put her feet up and recline among the piled up cushions until he should arrive. 3. He was walking timidly, as though he knew that at such a time in the morning it were an intrusion to visit one's friends. 4. If Mr. Jungle, from his place of concealment, could have beheld the expression which the old lady's face assumed at this communication, the probability is that a sudden burst of laughter would have betrayed his close vicinity to the summerhouse. 5. He enquired, as if it were a matter of life or death, whether she wanted French or English mustard, and while he was bending over doling her the neatest of blobs, she raised her head, and he gave her a look. 6. Mr. Bumble drew a long breath, as if he were glad to find that the story was over. 7. Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was so profoundly touched, that, if he had had the courage, and if George and Miss Amelia had remained in the other room, his bachelorhood would have been at an end. 8. It looked to him as if the house would be cold. 9....her grey eyes were the wonder — dewy, as if opened for the first time, that day. 10....there was something terrible in the idea that but for his, James's money, Dartie's name might have appeared in the Bankruptcy List. 11. Mr. Nupkins looked calmly terri­ble, and commanded that the lady should be shown in. 12. He turned to look at her, but something in her smiling face — something which only he perhaps would have caught —stopped the words bubbling up in him. 13. It seemed to her that if she could lay her two hands upon that neck that all its strength and vigor would flow out to her. 14. Mr. Bumble drew a long breath, as if he were glad to find that the story was over. 15. If Amelia could have heard the comments regarding her which were made in the circle from which her father's ruin had just driven her, she would have seen what her own crimes were, and how her character was jeopardized.

II. Define the shade of meaning, expressed by the Subjunctive Mood form:

\. That's all I can remember. I wouldn't have remembered it at all but for you. 2.1 think it's time you went to bed. 3. Except for a double chin, and mouth too large and thick, she would have been perfectly pretty. 4. That night Miss Martin called on Franklin Gomez and demanded that the boy be whipped. 5. I feel as if we known you for longer. 6. He wished he could see the post-card of the Vermont house, but if he asked to see it, they would know he had been listening. 7. I was going to suggest that she give up drink, but she looked too miserable. 8. I wish I knew something of veterinary medicine. There's a feeling of helplessness with a sick animal... I wish somebody would write a good, comprehensive book on home dog medicine. I would do it myself if I were qualified. 9. But I was crippled by the events of the day, and I wished I hadn't come. 10. The night had gone colder; the jug felt as though the water inside had been iced. 11. I would have gone too, but I was tied up to Joseph.... 12. But Victorine sat thinking of so much, that it was as if she thought of nothing. 13. He surveyed the events of the day, of all the lost days. What would Corker have done? 14. It was not considered strange that he should be working at a manual occupation and still sounding his aitches. 15. You would have thought from his expression that he was seeing it for the first time. 16. He stared at her as if he hadn't seen her before, but managed to get out a 'How d'you do'. 17. I wish you'd been there, we had a wonderful time. 18. If the boy was here he would wet the coils of line, he thought. Yes. If the boy were here. If the boy were here. 19. Preedy had had many converts like Mrs. Rollwright; he was not at all surprised that highly intelligent people should come to him. 20. "I wish we hadn't left everything to the last minute," I said. 21. At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain. 22. It was exactly as if he were sharing the house with a stranger; suddenly they became coldly, meticulously polite to each other.

III. State whether the action in the main clause and the subclause is real or hypothetical, what mood form it is expressed by (the indicative or subjunctive):

1. Had the world been watching, it would have been startled... 2. If Robert told them.., they nodded rapturously. 3....if he thinks a thing nasty, he doesn't do it. 4. I'd give my eyes if I had that boy's good nature. 5. We threatened I those two prima donnas that if they didn't play we'd settle on a third candidate. 6. "If it won't bore you, let me tell you." 7. "...he won't believe anything I say, he won't..." — Hi he won't, he won't." 8. "Wouldn't it be much better if you went to bed?" 9. If you automatically fell in love with TIio most attractive woman you saw, in the first place your life would be hell, and in the second the plain women would never get husbands. 9. "I '11 explain it to you if you don't watch out." 10. I looked at his face again. If ever I saw a man on the point of breaking up, I saw one of them. 11. "He was never very pleased about anything," Vincent said. "He was a can­tankerous old devil if the truth were to be told." 12. If you want to get up a charity or something like that... then you must first get the authorities' permission. 13. Most adolescents are very hungry for approbation from adults, and if you take away that bait — if you make it clear however well they work you still won't care whether they live or die — they'll turn rebellious. 14. If it didn't come of its own accord, as it easily might, it shouldn't be hard to coax it out of him. 15. If she laughed, the tinge of mourning lent her laughter new charms. If she sighed, the exuberant array of her apparel bade the spectator be of good cheer. Was she witty, men surren­dered reason and adored her. 16. If she takes to you she'll do anything for you.... 17. I'm telling you, kid, if you were with me I'd be happy out there. 18. If I were in London I could at least go to Galleries.