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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...is important that he makes friends,’ said Fibich ; I do wish he was coming too. And consider also contexts in which the verbal form is the same in the subjunctive and the indicative mood: We cannot talk as if the other parties were demons ; He asked that I do him the courtesy of… 2 Present-day currency. The subjunctive mood was common in Old English and until about 1600 . Examples are harder to find in the period 1600–1900 but it became remarkably prevalent in the 20c., first in AmE and then in other forms of English, including BrE, as the...
