Write 10 sentences stating your present thoughts about your future. 

You might write about what will happen when you leave the university, get a job, get married, get old, die, etc.

Make sure that you:
a. recognize verbs followed by the subjunctive.
b. use the infinitive in the second clause when the subjects of the two actions are the same;
c. use a conjugated verb in the second clause when the subjects are different;
d. use the past subjunctive when you mark an action as finished at a certain moment.

Examples:
1.  Je désire que toutes mes études soient finies quand j'aurai 30 ans.  Je veux avoir fini mes études.
2.  Je pense que j'aurai un bel époux.  Je crois mourir avant 80 ans.
3.  Je craint que mon emploi ne m'ait pas payé une assez bonne pension pour me rétirer en confort.
4.  Je suis ravi que mon père m'ait donné une million de dollars avant ma quarantième année.
5.   Il est essentiel que mon mari ait fini ses études avant l'âge de 35 ans.

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I  Write a complex sentence whose main clause contains:
1. a verb expressing fear about something you yourself may or may not do. Subj/Ind verbs list.

2. a verb expressing fear about what someone else might do.

3. a verb expressing desire about something you may or may not do.

4. a verb expressing desire about something someone else may do.

5. "être" + adjective expressing an emotion about something you may do.

6. "être" + adjective expressing an emotion about something someone else may do.

7. "vouloir" expressing what you want to have done or finished at a certain moment in your future.

8. "vouloir" expressing what you want someone else to have done or finished at a certain moment  in your future.

9. an impersonal verb stating what you will possibly have done or finished at a certain moment in your future.Subj/Ind verbs list

10. an impersonal verb stating what it is necessary for someone else to have done or finished at a certain moment in your future.

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