Is there a well-known secular sentence that uses all three of the imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods?
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00:00 Is There A Well-Known Secular Sentence That Uses All Three Of The Imperative, Indicative, And Subjun
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Well, subjunctive mood is a bit opaque to me, and it's more than one sentence, but perhaps
Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
...
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed;
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost.
(The Minnow would be lost.)
"Just sit right back" sounds like imperative to me, and I think "If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost" matches some of the examples I've found of subjunctive mood, with everything else in indicative.
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"Star night, Star bright.
First Star I've seen tonight,
Wish I may, wish I might
Have the wish I wish to-night"
First Star is invoked to "wish" (imperative) something for me.
What that is is in the subjunctive, "that I may have, that I might have..."
"the wish I wish tonight" is in the indicative.
This anthology gives a different version which is parsed differently.
'Subjunctives' (meaning may clauses that require subjunctive in Latin) survive in a few granny quotes, such as "I would'n if I were you!"
and in a few incantations.