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Subjunctive vs Conditional - What's the difference?

subjunctive | conditional |

As adjectives the difference between subjunctive and conditional

is that subjunctive is inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact while conditional is limited by a condition.

As nouns the difference between subjunctive and conditional

is that subjunctive is the subjunctive mood while conditional is a conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.

subjunctive

English

(Subjunctive mood) (English subjunctive)

Adjective

(-)
  • (grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

    • Noun

  • (grammar, uncountable) The subjunctive mood.
  • (countable) A form in the subjunctive mood.

    • Related terms

    * subjoin

    External links

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    conditional

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conditionall (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
  • (grammar) The conditional mood.
  • (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
    • "A implies B" is a conditional .
  • * L. H. Atwater
    • Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
  • (computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
    • if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
  • (obsolete) A limitation.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * (in logic) if-then statement; material conditional

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) antecedent * (in logic) consequent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Limited by a condition.
    • I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • Every covenant of God with man may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
  • (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
    • "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
  • * Whately
    • A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
  • (grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
    • a conditional word, mode, or tense

    Synonyms

    * conditioned * relative * limited * (in logic) hypothetical

    Antonyms

    * absolute * categorical * unconditional

    Derived terms

    * conditional entropy * conditional probability * conditional proof * conditional sentence