[Grammar] It's high time you "chose" ?????

[Tdol]

I also think Fowler exaggerated a little bit. Subjunctive isn't dead and some people still cultivate it.

To be fair, he said it was moribund except in a few cases- the present subjunctive in BrE survives in fossil phrases and occasionally lends a drab speech some cheap gravitas, though it lives on in AmE, and apart from 'If/I wish I were', and even here it is not used by many, the past subjunctive will pass unnoticed as a form- does 'If I went' have any real subjunctive association- the element of uncertainty is more than adequately dealt with by 'if'. I use 'If I were' because I grew up with it, but I think of it more as a verb form than a real mood.
If it is a true mood, shouldn't people be arguing that we go back to the good old days and start saying ''If he be'? ;-)

 

[mmasny]

I actually know a bunch people using subjunctive consciously and full time. I'm not sure of their nationalities, but some of them are for sure Americans indeed. They are all educated men whom I get to know on scientific mailing lists like this: Octave - General forum & mailing list archive

This is of course in writing. I have no idea what they speak like. I did hear somebody using subjunctive but it might as well have been in an old movie or in some formal speech, I don't remember.