Oh my English!

Either "May God bless you" OR "God bless/blesses you and that at it"

                            



FLASH NEWS !!! ; 

"God bless you" is kinda form so-called subjunctive as it goes "God bless you" that indicates **A WISH. Whereas,  "God blesses you" represents ** A FACT that indicates an ongoing state. Therefore, BOTH are  CORRECT). SUBJUNCTIVE?? What is it about?? So-called GRAMMATICAL MOOD. It also sort of the forms of verbs in order to express those illogically pre-statements that haven't occurred yet such as wish, emotion,necessity possibility, judgment, opinion, or action


   

                  Heyy! all. Allow me to share my cognitive/thought here ; Basically we're always hearing " May God bless you " all this while, right? Right after I studied " Functional Grammar" in my college last time, I'd learned everything about grammar and stuff like that. All I can say, grammar is somewhat skeptical at first, but toward the end, it was something interesting once we've learned as such more details in its studies.

                   As far as I'm concerned, it's all about a word of "May" itself. "May" is one of :MODAL VERBS: in auxiliary verb category , that's why! Another AUXILIARY VERBS are "be (am, are, is, was, were, being), can, could, do (did, does, doing), have (had, has, having), may, might, must, shall, should, will, would. 

                   "Auxiliary verbs" help to express functional meaning of aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. All the auxiliary verbs except 'be, do and have" are called modals. Therefore, every single MODAL VERB comes after it is assumed as "plural thing". So, there's no "S" upon next VERB. Bear in mind, any (MODAL VERBS) must be followed without "S" and even PRONOUNS which follow it. 

                    After all, in case of the above discussion, it is obviously correct when it goes " May God bless you" instead of " May God blesses you" . Let's say it is without "May", it supposed be going like this "God blesses you" regarding to the rule of English grammar. Based on English grammar's rule, 

"God bless you" 's sentence is TOTALLY WRONG at all. 

                             

                    Since it is carried away just like that from the common phrase, "May God bless you" all this while, people tend to disclose it as "God bless you" in another way round. However, as in a colloquial situation "It is welcomed/ACCEPTED". After all, speaking and writing are two different things which are so called as "MARKED/UNMARKED choices" if we learn more about them.

Kak Dibah&Gabz

               


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