USE OF SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD IN PAKISTANI SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH

Abstract

The present study is a corpus based analysis of Pakistani spoken and written English. Two corpora Pakistani Spoken English (PSE) and Pakistani Written English (PWE) have been compiled. This study explores the use of subjunctive mood in the said corpora. The data for study comes from different genres of PSE and PWE. ‘CLAWS Tagger C7’ has been used to tag the data and a software named ‘Antconc .3.2.1 has been used to finalize the results. The research explores the use of ‘present and past subjunctive’ which is extended with ‘mandative and suassive’ verbs. The list of mandative verbs has been taken from research of Fillbrandt (2006).  The study concludes that subjunctive mood is dying in Pakistani Spoken English because speakers use ‘modal verbs’ specially ‘should’ instead of subjunctive. The results show that hypothetic condition becomes an obligation in PSE due to the use of ‘should’ that is basically unawareness about this mood. The present research helps to discover the reasons behind the less use of subjunctive in Spoken English. It grabs the attention of educationists and practitioners who can design syllabus of English at school (particularly for early year’s students) for the awareness of subjunctive.