Subjunctive

The subjunctive is not a verbal tense. It is a mood. Itis used when something is not real or it depends on something else. The subjunctive may be true or not or may happen or not:

• Indicative: certain or objective things (used in tenses like present, past, future, conditional, etc.)

• Subjunctive: possible or subjective things

The subjunctive does not use all the forms for the verb to be. It only uses be (present) and were (past) for all pronouns. Third-person singular does not add an -s for the rest of the verbs.