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Subjunctive vs Conjunctive - What's the difference?

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Conjunctive is a synonym of subjunctive.



In grammar of a verb terms the difference between subjunctive and conjunctive

is that subjunctive is inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact while conjunctive is subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

As a noun subjunctive

is the subjunctive mood.

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.
  • conjunctive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).
  • (grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
  • (grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
  • (grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je'' or Irish ''
  • (grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
  • (logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
  • (obsolete) Closely united.
  • * 1599 , , IV. vii. 15:
  • She is so conjunctive to my life and soul / That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, / I could not but by her.

    Synonyms

    * (subjunctive) subjunctive

    Antonyms

    * (of a personal pronoun) disjunctive * (of logical conjunction) disjunctive

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "conjunctive") * conjunctive adjunct * conjunctive adverb * conjunctive approach * conjunctive archaeology * conjunctive conjunction * conjunctive eye movement * conjunctive grammar * conjunctive illocutionary act * conjunctively * conjunctive management * conjunctive membrane * conjunctive mood * conjunctiveness * conjunctive normal form * conjunctive operation * conjunctive participle * conjunctive symbiosis * conjunctive tissue * conjunctive tunic * conjunctive use * conjunctive verb * unconjunctive

    See also

    * conjunctional * conjunctiva