Question

Which sentence is subjunctive but not conditional? I suggest that you finish your dinner before playing video games. If you finish your dinner, you can have dessert. If you hadn't had so many snacks, you would have more of an appetite. If you don't finish your dinner, you can't have snacks tomorrow

Answer 1

Answer: The sentence that is subjunctive but not conditional is "I suggest that you finish your dinner before playing video games".

Explanation: A sentence written in the subjunctive mood expresses a wish or an imagined situation. Therefore, unlike the indicative mood, the subjunctive mood does not present factual information, but it rather refers to an event that is not certain to happen. In the sentence "I suggest that you finish your dinner before playing video games", the speaker expresses a wish; however, nothing tells the reader that this situation will come true: it only represents something that the speaker wants to happen. Therefore, this sentence is in the subjunctive mood; however, it is not a conditional since it does not express a condition for the wish to come true. In contrast to the other sentences provided, the first sentence does not contain a conditional clause introduced by "if".

Answer 2

I suggest that you finish your dinner before playing video games.