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I'm not sure about that, but even if it's so, it makes little difference. The ideas behind teaching the terms "case" and "mood" are essentially equivalent.

I don't think he has a very good textbook, then.[/quote]



No worse than teaching "this is the nominative, etc." without using the word "case," I suppose. You don't *need* to know the terms to...

There is no conditional or subjunctive tense. In Russian you have past tense, present tense, and future tense. The conditional-subjunctive is a mood. The Spanish subjunctive, being a Romance...

Your textbook will probably get to that a little later... I can't imagine a textbook without gerunds and the conditional-subjunctive.