I read the following sentence:
I wanted my daughter to make her bed.
If I wish to use the subjunctive mood instead of the (more usual) infinitive form, would it be "I wanted that my daughter made her bed" ?
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Sign up to join this communityI read the following sentence:
I wanted my daughter to make her bed.
If I wish to use the subjunctive mood instead of the (more usual) infinitive form, would it be "I wanted that my daughter made her bed" ?
"I wanted that my daughter made her bed" doesn't contain a subjunctive. The subjunctive of make is always make. ('I insisted he make some toast.')
If you were to look at some examples of the subjunctive mood you might notice how often it takes 'that':
You demand that I be available
I ask that you be truthful
it's essential that she be here.
But when it is used as a conjunction, that can't follow I wanted.
I insisted that my daughter make her bed uses the subjunctive correctly, but it doesn't precisely mean "I wanted my daughter to make her bed".
I asked that her bed be made also uses the subjunctive but it doesn't say who should make the bed!
I wished my daughter's bed were made by her is absurdly convoluted!
The original sentence is fine. The subjunctive mood is not suitable for all sentences.