What is the correct way to pronounce the future subjunctive of the verb to see?
We say: If she “sees” me or “If she “sees” me? When does she “see” me or When does she “see” me?
The verbs "see" and "come" cause us doubts when employed in the future of the subjunctive. One takes the form of the other. A similar case occurs with the derivatives of seeing: foreseeing, foreseeing, foreseeing and revising and with the derivatives of coming: coming, coming, intervening, coming, coming, among others.
The correct answer to the above question, in both cases, is the second option. The future of the subjunctive of the third person plural can be extracted from the past perfect tense of the indicative. Let's see below:
From the verb "to see" - they see - the suffix (AM) is removed and the first person of the future of the subjunctive is obtained: "to come".
From the verb "to come" - they came; minus the ending “AM”: “come”. The conjugation of verbs ending in seeing or coming (such as providing and intervening) also obeys the general scheme applied to them in the future of the subjunctive:
| TO SEE | COME OVER |
| Come over | come |
| turn | you come |
| Come over | come |
| come | come |
| come | come |
| come | come |
The verb “prover”, however, differs from the verb “to see”. Conjugated as “see”, but it is regular in the perfect (provi, prove, provide, prove, prove, provide). In the more-than-perfect (provera), in the imperfect subjunctive (provesse), in the future of the subjunctive (provide, provide, provide, provide, provide, provide). In the participle (provided).
The verb “to be”, on the other hand, is different from other verbs, since in many cases it fails to agree with the subject to agree with the subject's predicative. Like for example:
the rest is silence
Silence is the subject's predicative because it is a nominal predicate.
Not everything is flowers
It agrees with the predicative because it is in the plural.
To facilitate our understanding, we will analyze some cases in which the verb under study is agreed:
Two personal pronouns:
agree with the first name
Ex:She's not me.
we are them tomorrow
Predicative with demonstrative pronoun "o":
Preferentially agree with the predicative
Ex: Friends was what you lacked
Women is what doesn't exist around here
Subject expressed by measure or quantity
Preferentially agree with the predicative
nine months is too much
ten years of marriage is not easy
Subject indicating date, time and distance
Agree with the predicative, if there is more than number, the verb will agree with the closest one.
Ex: It's September 20th
It's December 1st
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By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
DUARTE, Vânia Maria do Nascimento. "The use of the verbs See, Come and Ser"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/o-uso-dos-verbos-ver-vir-ser.htm. Accessed on June 28, 2021.
