The subjunctive mood serves as a critical discriminator for Higher Tier proficiency, marking the shift from factual reporting to the expression of subjectivity, doubt, and influence. Candidates must demonstrate understanding of the syntactic triggers—specifically impersonal expressions, verbs of volition, and temporal conjunctions regarding the future—that necessitate this mood. Assessment focuses on the accurate conjugation of the present subjunctive and its application within complex sentence structures to convey nuance beyond the indicative.
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