SUBJUNCTIVE

GRADE XII SEMESTER 1

1. PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE
 It’s a hope or a prayer that people say in
everyday life:
 Examples: God bless you.
God forgive you.
Long live the Queen.
2. PRESENT UNREAL SUBJUNCTIVE
 It’s a wish that is opposite with the fact in the present time.
 We can use the “wish”, “would rather”, “as if ” or “as though”
and “if only”.
 Examples:
- WISH  S1+wish + S2 + V2/were
* I wish I were not a popular person.
Means: I am a popular person.
* He wishes his secretary came to the meeting.
Means: His secretary doesn’t come to the meeting.
- WOULD RATHER S1 + would rather + S2 + V2/were
* I would rather it rained today.
Means: It doesn’t rain today. present
• He’d rather she were his girlfriend.
Means: She is not his girlfriend.
- AS IF / AS THOUGH  S1+ V1+as if/as though+S2+V2/were
* Lanny speaks as if she were married.
Means: She is not married. present
* Pino acts as though he could speak French well.
Means: Pino can not /doesn’t speak French well.
If only
If only + S + V2/were
• If only I knew him.
Mean: I don’t know him. present
If only I were you, I would take his offer to be a movie star.
Mean: I am not you so I do not take his offer to be a movie star.
If only the students didn’t play truant, the teacher wouldn’t
be angry.
Mean: The students play truant so the teacher is angry.
Change the verbs in the brackets and then find
the real meaning
1. I wish I knew his name.
I don’t know his name.
2. I’d rather you went now.
You don’t go now.You are here now ( but I don’t like it ).
4. If only he did not eat so much garlic!
He eats so much garlic.
8. The girl speaks as though she had a boy friend.
She doesn’t have a boy friend.
9. If only he were healthy, he could go to the party with me.
He is sick/isn’t healthy so he can’t go to the party with
me.
 3. PAST UNREAL SUBJUNCTIVE
 It’s a wish in the past that was not fulfilled (considered as a regret).
 Examples:
- WISH S1+wished+S2+had V3/been
* I wished she had never met him.
Means: She ever met him. past tense
• I wished he had been graduated last year.
• Means: He wasn’t graduated last year.
- WOULD RATHER S1+would rather+S2+hadV3/been
* I would rather I had learned Japanese or French.
Means: I didn’t learn Japanese or French. past tense
• I’d rather he had got the first place.
• Means: He didn’t get the first place.
- AS IF / AS THOUGH  S+V2+as if / as though+S2+had
V3/been
* Socy talked as if she had known a lot about car.
Means: She didn’t know a lot about car.
* Boni behaved as though he had bought a new car.
Means: He didn’t buy a new car.
- IF ONLYIf only+S+had V3/been, S+would/could+have+V3
- If only I had known that the countryman was a cruel man, I
would have left him.
Means: I didn’t know that the country man was a cruel man so I
didn’t leave him.
 Correct the verbs in the brackets and then find the meaning of the
sentences!
1. I wished I had known his name.
I didn’t know his name.
1. I’d rather you had gone yesterday.
You didn’t go yesterday.
1. She would rather the boy had been there last night.
The boy didn’t there last night.
1. The girl spoke as though she had had a boy friend.
She didn’t have a boy friend.
1. If only he had been healthy, he could have gone to the party with me.
He wasn’t healthy so he didn’t go to the party with me.
1. If only she had started to do it early, she could have finished it on
time.
2. She didn’t start to do it early so she didn’t finish it on time.
 Correct the verbs in the brackets and then find the meaning of the sentences!

1. I wish I met her now. I don’t meet her now.

2. I’d rather you left soon.
3. I feel as if my head were on fire!
4. The man acts as if he owned the house.
5. He acts as though he never loved her.
6. She would rather the boy were here.
7. If only I got a better result in the test.
8. We wish the teacher were not angry with us.
9. The girl spoke as though she had had a boy friend.
10. If only she had started to do it early, she could have finished
it on time. She didn’t start to do it early so she couldn’t
finish it on time.