Grammar question

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 10249

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Pam Scruton" <Pam at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda wrote 
> > The grammar is correct, so far as I understand it. British 
English 
> treats
> > collective nouns--like sheep, council, assembly, you know, words 
> that are
Apart from my immediate family, the only people I know 
> who ever use subjunctives are Merkins!
> 
> Pam

You mean "condition contrary to fact" I wish I were King?

Would that I were Harry Potter?

We use them all the time.....

S