June 18, 2007

Episode 6:  Subjunctive - All's well that ends ...

In All's well that ends ..., we are once again backstage at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.  We will tackle the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive, as we continue delving into the sequence of tenses.  If the verb in the main clause is in a past tense or in a tense of the conditional, we will use either the imperfect or the pluperfect subjunctive.  It's all a question of when the two actions take place in relation to each other.  What's going on backstage?  Let's listen ...

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