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Did "New Moon" change your allegiance to the Twilight characters?

Still Team Edward
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Switched from Team Jacob to Team Edward
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Subjunctive versus Infinitive

If the subjects are exactly the same in meaning in both clauses of a sentence, que is omitted and the subjunctive is replaced by the infinitive: Je voudrais jouer au tennis. (I want to play tennis.)

However, you say the following: Je voudrais que nous jouions au tennis. (I want us to play tennis.)

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