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262 self-paced lessons: Fine mood distinctions, reduced clauses, academic and official Portuguese, the ENEM-style essay, Brazil and Portugal, nuance and pragmatic particles, word order, the media, literature and history.
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Mood as Meaning
Use the indicative to assert and the subjunctive to withhold assertion, in relative clauses, after "o fato de que" and with "talvez".
O Melhor Que Eu Já Tenha Visto
Use the subjunctive after superlatives, o único, o primeiro and nenhum to frame a claim as the limit of what you know, and learn when the spoken indicative says it more plainly.
Que Eu Saiba, Seja Como For
Use the fixed subjunctive expressions of educated Portuguese, from "que eu saiba" and "seja como for" to "custe o que custar", "haja o que houver" and "quer... quer...", in the right register.
Digam o Que Disserem
Use the doubled-verb concessive (aconteça o que acontecer, venha quem vier, digam o que disserem) to say no matter what, plus its past form with the imperfect subjunctive.
Quem Me Dera! Wishes and Exclamations
Hope, wish, bless and curse with tomara, oxalá, quem me dera and Deus queira, choosing the tense and the register that fit.
Contrast Clinic: Indicative or Subjunctive, and Why?
Minimal pairs where both moods are grammatical but say different things: a particular thing or any thing, news or an order, perception or regret, result or aim.
Dialogue Lab: Seja Como For
Follow a tense planning meeting in São Paulo where colleagues hedge, commit, concede and hope with fixed subjunctive expressions.
Error Hunt: Advanced Mood Choices
Find and fix the mood slips advanced learners make: que eu sei, seja o que for in the wrong slot, digam o que dizem, and when a hedged claim after o único que needs the subjunctive.
Transformations: From Fact to Possibility
Turn plain statements into guesses, concessions and wishes, choosing the right subjunctive tense each time.
Spiral Review: The Subjunctive in Depth
Fresh practice that mixes every Advanced use of the subjunctive: mood as meaning, superlatives and o único, fixed expressions, the reduplicated concessive and wishes.
Unit 1 review: The Subjunctive: Fine Distinctions
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Subjunctive: Fine Distinctions", then translate three sentences.
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