The Imperfect Subjunctive
www.stcharlesprep.org › 01_parents › oneil_jThe imperfect tense of the subjunctive expresses potential action or non-factual actionfrom the viewpoint of the past tense. In English, the helping verbs might and would are used to express the imperfect subjunctive. In Latin, the imperfect subjunctive is almost always used in a subordinate clause; there is no hortatory subjunctive which uses ...
The Pluperfect Subjunctive
www.stcharlesprep.org › 01_parents › oneil_jThe Pluperfect Subjunctive The Pluperfect Subjunctive, active and passive, is a Secondary Sequence Tense, and is never used in Purpose or Result Clauses. It is expressed in English by the helping verb phrases might have or would have. The formation rule is simple. Pluperfect Active Subjunctive: Use the perfect active stem (third principal