LYRICS GAME

That I be

That I were

That I have been

Ouooh

These days whoever courts

meets more and more trouble

with verbs in the subjunctive

So it's time to reopen

the grammar manual

that's

that's very educational

Gerund, imperative

Infinitive, indicative

Many tenses and many conjugations, but

the subjunctive has a distinctive role

and it's used for events

that aren't real

it's related to what's subjective

and different from other verbal moods

and now that you know it too

you won't mess it up anymore

if the clause is of the unreality kind

you need the subjunctive

Like 'If you'd used the pluperfect subjunctive

with her it wouldn't have gone that bad'

Conditional

Follow the consecutio temporum

the subjunctive has a distinctive role

and it's used for events

that aren't real

it's related to what's subjective

and different from other verbal moods

And now let's review some verbs in the subjunctive

That I be

That I were

That I have been

That I had been

That I have

That I had

That I have had

That I had had

That I would be

The subjunctive

as I told you

is used in this type of syntactic construction

Dubitative, almost reflexive

described by the following didactic example

and now that you know it too

you won't mess it up anymore