Přehled o publikaci

This article describes the subjunctive mood as a morphological category of verbal modality and focuses on the use of this grammatical phenomenon in current English. Corpus data are used to demonstrate the use of the subjunctive mood on selected excerpts. The subjunctive mood is also presented here as a grammatical category describing the relationship between verb and actuality or intention expressing an important aspect of English grammar. In Corpus findings, the trigger word/phrase method is applied, which allows to detect individual subjunctive phrases, thereby explicitly expressing the grammatical relationships between the components in a sentence. The current state of this language mean is then discussed on the examples identified and its relevance is assessed at the end of this article.