Avoiding the Subjunctive with Infinitive Constructions
When both clauses share the same subject, French forbids the subjunctive and requires an infinitive: je veux partir, never je veux que je parte; je suis content de partir. Several conjunctions have prepositional twins for same-subject use — avant de, pour, afin de, à condition de, sans + infinitive.
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When both clauses share the same subject, French forbids the subjunctive and requires an infinitive: je veux partir, never je veux que je parte; je suis content de partir. Several conjunctions have prepositional twins for same-subject use — avant de, pour, afin de, à condition de, sans + infinitive.
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