Sure: "The police demand that he remain [not remains!] on the ground." On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
"Lie" is probably the wrong verb to use in an example here; it is too likely to contribute its own tense-confusion. Try restating the example with "stretch out" or "remain"?
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
I take that back: I've heard it used often in sentences involving "to demand that", like "The police demand that he lay flat on the ground."
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
It's "lay" because "if" takes a subjunctive! --rwg
I had to go look this up. I don't believe that before this I'd ever heard someone use the present subjunctive correctly. Past and future subjunctive I hear all the time, but never present. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com
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