{"id":500,"date":"2011-09-16T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=500"},"modified":"2011-09-16T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:20:20","slug":"the-beautiful-subjunctive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful subjunctive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not being sarcastic, and I&#8217;ll soon show you the reason I call it that. A big tip: do not study dry verb tables but try to get a grasp of the subjunctive from reading, as the same words occur again and again. Three of the\u00a0most common ones are here in italics:<\/p>\n<p>Il fait ; qu&#8217;il le\u00a0<em>fasse<\/em> ; je veux qu&#8217;il le\u00a0<em>fasse<\/em> vite : he does; may he do it; I want him to do it quickly&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.il peut ; qu&#8217;il\u00a0<em>puisse<\/em> ; je pense qu&#8217;il\u00a0<em>puisse<\/em> le chanter : he can; that he may be able to; I think that he can sing it&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;il est\u00a0l\u00e0 ; qu&#8217;il\u00a0<em>soit<\/em> l\u00e0 ; esperons qu&#8217;il\u00a0<em>soit<\/em> l\u00e0 : he is there; let him be there; let&#8217;s hope that he will be there.<\/p>\n<p>Now you will be able to sound like an expert in French&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not being sarcastic, and I&#8217;ll soon show you the reason I call it that. A big tip: do not study dry verb tables but try to get a grasp of the subjunctive from reading, as the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=500\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-84","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}