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Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 1 of 6
C'est le meilleur film que j'aie vu, il n'y a personne qui sache: the subjunctive after superlatives, le seul, le premier and negative antecedents, and when the indicative is still right.
Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 2 of 6
Qu'il soit compétent, personne n'en doute: a que-clause at the head of a sentence goes into the subjunctive, and le fait que can take either mood.
Contrast Clinic: Qu'il Vienne / Qu'il Soit Venu
Inside the subjunctive, the present and past forms express aspect: an action still to come or ongoing versus one already completed.
Error Hunt: Mood and Tense Agreement
Diagnose and fix the mood and aspect errors that even advanced learners leave in emails and posts: bien qu'il a, le seul qui peut, je suis content qu'il vient hier.
Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 3 of 6
Comprendre que, admettre que, dire que, supposer que, entendre que: verbs whose meaning changes with the mood of the clause that follows.
Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 4 of 6
The ne explétif in avant qu'il ne parte, à moins qu'il ne pleuve, je crains qu'il ne soit trop tard and c'est plus cher que je ne pensais: a ne that negates nothing.
Transformations: Qui Que Tu Sois, Où Que J'aille
Turn whoever, whatever and wherever into French with qui que, quoi que, où que and their set phrases: quoi qu'il arrive, qui que ce soit, coûte que coûte.
Style Workshop: The Softening Subjunctive
Disagree tactfully at work: je ne dis pas que ce soit faux, ce n'est pas que je refuse, non que ce soit grave, je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit la meilleure solution.
Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 5 of 6
Recognise the imparfait du subjonctif in literature, old texts and formal speeches (qu'il fût, qu'il eût, qu'il vînt) and translate it with the modern present subjunctive.
Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances, Part 6 of 6
The plus-que-parfait du subjonctif as a literary past conditional (j'eusse aimé, eût-il su, on eût dit) and its living survivals: fût-ce, ne serait-ce que, qui l'eût cru, soit... soit.
Text Detective: The Subjunctive in an Editorial
Read a newspaper editorial on remote work, find every subjunctive, name its trigger and decide which ones the author could have avoided.
Spiral Review: The Subjunctive from Upper-intermediate to Advanced
Mix the Upper-intermediate subjunctive (conjunctions, relative clauses, past subjunctive) with this unit's superlatives, que-fronting, ne explétif and universal formulas in real-life messages.
Unit 1 review: Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "Subjunctive: Advanced Nuances", then translate three sentences.
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