What's the difference between subjunctive and unsay?

Subjunctive


Definition:

  • (a.) Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
  • (n.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new component of anti-AChE myopathy was recognized: progressive swelling of chromatin in subjunctional muscle nuclei.
  • (2) The subjunctive is more common in American than British English, often in formal or poetic contexts – in the song If I Were a Rich Man, for example.
  • (3) At the stage in which subjunctional components, including soleplate nuclei, were severely damaged (day 7), the true nuclear inclusions were frequently associated with the disrupted nuclear envelope (fragmentation, vesiculation etc.)
  • (4) Question 41 assumes there is a “subjunctive” in English.
  • (5) 3 Don't get in a bad mood over the subjunctive The subjunctive is a verb form (technically, "mood") expressing hypothesis, typically to indicate that something is being demanded, proposed, imagined, or insisted: "he demanded that she resign", and so on.
  • (6) The results are consistent with the view that transmitter released from noradrenergic vasoconstrictor nerves acts primarily on subjunctional alpha-adrenoceptors.
  • (7) These changes were dose and time dependent and were restricted primarily to the subjunctional myofibrillar apparatus and membrane-bound organelles.
  • (8) Asymmetric synaptic contacts onto cell bodies and dendrites were often defined by the presence of subjunctional dense bodies associated with the postsynaptic membrane.
  • (9) No alterations in the number of subjunctional bodies were observed.
  • (10) The subjunctional membranes of both gamma and beta bag1 endings were typically smooth in contour.
  • (11) About a quarter of the synapses also possessed additional specializations, postsynaptic, or subjunctional bodies.
  • (12) We know it's rubbish, but we allow our hopes to be raised, only to witness 190 nations arguing through the night over the use of the subjunctive in paragraph 286.
  • (13) The writer Somerset Maugham, who in 1949 announced "the subjunctive mood is in its death throes", might be surprised to see my son Freddie's bookshelf, which contains If I Were a Pig … (Jellycat Books, 2008).
  • (14) The few synapses observed are asymmetric, some with subjunctional dense bodies.
  • (15) This technique allows a detailed study of the subjunctional conduction and gives information on the conduction pathways in ventricular arrhythmias.
  • (16) Asymmetric contacts were frequently characterized by the presence of subjunctional dense bodies.
  • (17) Toxin A-induced structural alterations of villus tip absorptive cells were strikingly similar to those induced by the actin-binding agent cytochalasin D. Specifically, cells displayed constricted subjunctional zones, flared microvillus brush borders, condensation of microfilaments in the zone of the perijunctional actomyosin ring, and breakdown of intercellular tight junctions.
  • (18) Subjunctional bodies are present at both axosomatic and axodendritic synapses.
  • (19) The journalist Simon Heffer is a fan of the subjunctive, recommending such usages as "if I be wrong, I shall be defeated".
  • (20) Bag1 endings differed from those on bag2 and typical chain fibers in having a thicker sole plate, frequently indented axon terminals, and unfolded subjunctional membranes.

Unsay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Privatisation would destroy that at a stroke.” Trevor Phillips says the unsayable about race and multiculturalism Read more The government is considering privatisation as one of a number of options for Channel 4, which is commercially run but owned by the state.
  • (2) And the oath of “believing in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from abuse …” would arguably entail, from the prime minister, her cabinet, her party and her Ukip fellow travellers, a rather more rigorous rejection of Islamophobia, so that Muslim women in shopping centres didn’t have to be dragged along the ground by their hijabs in a newly emboldened climate of “saying the unsayable”.
  • (3) Comedy wants you to say the unsayable; the celebrity industry would rather you didn’t.
  • (4) Where it was possible at last for Egyptians to stand side by side and say what was previously unsayable.
  • (5) That No comes from deep within – and he can never unsay it.
  • (6) Lessing delivers the occasional blast of dry humour, but it is her intellectual honesty, her ability to say the unsayable, which has made her famous.
  • (7) "Germans would probably do themselves a service by leaving the euro, but this is something that is unsayable in German politics."
  • (8) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.
  • (9) For a potential £400,000 he was prepared to say the unsayable.
  • (10) It can be an interesting exercise to think the otherwise unsayable.
  • (11) The unsayable always has that strange cliff-edge allure, and quite a few comedians forage their material in no-go areas.
  • (12) "I like working in an environment of creative confidence and respect – where nothing is unsayable, so long as you find the right way to say it."
  • (13) One council leader I met dared openly to say the unsayable – there was no initiative on benefit nor incentive to work that could break the cycle of welfare dependency because there was no local worthwhile work.
  • (14) Mindful of the damage his win-at-all-costs moves had wrought, Netanyahu lost no time trying to unsay what he had said.
  • (15) His unsayable thing about women is that they [we] all want to be ravished.
  • (16) There are things you can never unsay, that you cannot say and still remain friends, and that would have been one of them.
  • (17) Here was a writer who said the unsayable, thought the unthinkable, and fearlessly put it down there, in all its raw emotional and intellectual chaos.
  • (18) Joan provoked incredulity mixed with a weird kind of rapture, as she said the unsayable – and they doubled over in laughter again and again.
  • (19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
  • (20) I was cited everywhere as having said the unsayable: that it is possible for a woman to dislike her children, even to regret having brought them into the world.

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