Use: A. Simple SentenceIn simple sentences only Subjunctive I is used in a few set expressions as a survival of old usage (the so-called formulaic expressions). 1. Most of them express a wish: Long live the Army! Success attend you! Be yours a happy meeting! Far be it from me to spoil the fun / to conceal the truth. Suffice it to say that he is a liar. God bless you! God save the Queen! Heaven forbid! Confound your ideas! Subjunctive I in such expressions can be replaced by “may + Infinitive”: May success attend you! May your meeting be happy! May the Army live long! 2. Some formulaic expressions have a concessive meaning: Happen (come) what may (will). Cost what it may. So be it (Be it so). Subjunctive I in these expressions may be replaced by Let + Infinitive: Let it be so. 3. The only productive pattern of a simple sentence with Subjunctive I is the sentence expressing a command or a request with an indefinite pronoun as the subject: Everybody leave the room! Somebody switch off the light! Subjunctive I may be replaced in such sentences by “let + Infinitive”: Let everybody leave the room. 4. The Suppositional Mood is used only in one type of interrogative sentences beginning with And what if …? (А что если вдруг …?): And what if he should come back?
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