Timeline for usage of subjunctive mood in the past
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| Apr 7, 2019 at 4:03 | answer | added | Khan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 2:08 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Oct 30, 2018 at 14:35 | comment | added | eques | "If he wanted" is technically a past subjunctive -- it just ends up being syntactically identical to the past indicative | |
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| Dec 19, 2016 at 12:37 | answer | added | Teacher KSHuang | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 22:29 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @FumbleFingers: Can you turn that into a full answer? I think you've hit on the heart of it. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | @BillJ I think the OP sees "would have done" as the expressing the pluperfect subjunctive as described here. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | BillJ | Er ..., where is the subjunctive that you mentioned in the title of your question? | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 14:30 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Using Simple Past puts the hypothetical scenario closer to the present (time of speaking). So in your example the speaker is probably implying that not only did he not want to kill them when they were at the junkyard - he still doesn't want to kill them when the speaker is talking about this later. If the speaker was talking about a situation that happened years ago, with no relevance to the time of speaking, Past Perfect would be preferred. But in most contexts I think you might as well just use Simple Past, because it's simpler. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 13:41 | history | asked | Elaung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |