Excerpt from The French Subjunctive Mood: A Brief Inductive Treatise; With Exercises In French the Subjunctive is the favorite mood for the expression of uncertainty. It is found chiefly in subordinate clauses, and especially when such clauses follow a principal verb taken negatively or interrogatively. Recommendations. Beyond this general remark, whose necessary vagueness renders it of little value, no a priori reasoning about the nature of the French subjunctive mood is to be expected in this book. Such reasoning not only leads to disappointment in teaching the use of this mood, but it becomes almost ridiculous when one notices the widely varying purposes subserved by the subjunctive form even in modern French. The writer's aim, then, will be to present to the learner the facts about the French subjunctive mood as it is to-day. This will be done by means of examples taken from contemporary authors, and if quotations from works earlier than the nineteenth century appear, they must be understood as confirming present usage, not as exemplifying that of former times. The student, once in possession of the facts, will draw his own inferences as to the function or functions of the mood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.