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A traditional term for the use of finite verbs uninflected for number or person with commands, wishes, suggestions, and hypothetical or counterfactual propositions. The 'present subjunctive' is the plain/infinitive form of the verb; the 'past subjunctive' is the general past form of the verb.
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Past tense (past subjunctive) used after "as if" to indicate a non-habitual action in the past
In every one of your constructions, the phrase following "as if" is not a hypothetical. It is a comparison being used as an adjective. Most of the time I would say it doesn't even imply that the phras …
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