Subjunctive
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. English examples include so be it; I wouldn’t if I were you; were I a younger man, I would fight back; I asked that he leave.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The subjunctive mood. A form in the subjunctive mood.
Mode
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scaleA particular means of accomplishing something.A value occurring most frequently in a distributionA state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.One of various related sets of rules for processing data.Style or fashion.
Example sentence: Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.