With a nod to Macbeth, David Marsh looks at the subjunctive: If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done correctly (The Guardian).
(And he quotes OCA on if I were and if I was.)
Monday, August 8, 2011
David Marsh on the subjunctive
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ReplyDeleteYes, I’ve been following them. I wish I’d thought of Yeats’s “Politics.”
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