Part 66 (1/2)

PERFECT TENSE

This tense prefixes the auxiliaries, _may have, can have_, or _ular_ _Plural_

1 I may have loved, 1 We may have loved, 2 Thou mayst have loved, 2 You may have loved, 3 He may have loved; 3 They may have loved

PLUPERFECT TENSE

This tense prefixes the auxiliaries, _ht have, could have, would have_, or _should have_, to the perfect participle: thus,

_Singular_ _Plural_

1 I htst have loved, 2 You ht have loved

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD

The subjunctive , action, or passion, as conditional, doubtful, or contingent This enerally preceded by a conjunction; as, _if, that, though, lest, unless, except_ But so of the verb before the nominative; as, ”_Were I_,” for, ”_If I were_;”--”_Had he_,” for, ”_If he had_;”--”_Fall we_” for, ”_If we fall_;”--”_Knew they_,” for, ”_If they knew_” It does not vary its termination at all, in the different persons[261] It is used in the present, and sometimes in the imperfect tense; rarely--and perhaps never _properly_--in any other As this mood can be used only in a dependent clause, the _tienerally indefinite; as,

”It shall be in eternal restless change, Self-fed, and self-consum'd: _if this fail_, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness”--_Milton, Coenerally used to express some condition on which a future action or event is affirraular_ _Plural_

1 If I love, 1 If we love, 2 If Thou love, 2 If you love, 3 If He love; 3 If they love

OBS--In this tense, the auxiliary _do_ is sometimes employed; as, ”If thou _do prosper_ my way”--_Genesis_, xxiv, 42 ”If he _do_ not _utter_ it”--_Leviticus_, v, 1 ”If he _do_ but _intimate_ his desire”--_Murray's Key_, p 207 ”If he _do promise_, he will certainly perform”--_Ib_, p

208 ”An event which, if it ever _do occur_, must occur in some future period”--_Hiley's Gram_, (3d Ed, Lond,) p 89 ”If he _do_ but _promise_, thou art safe”--_Ib_, 89

”Till old experience _do attain_ To so like prophetic strain”--MILTON: _Il Penseroso_

These exaht, prove the tense to be _present_, and not _future_, as Hiley and some others suppose it to be

IMPERFECT TENSE

This tense, like the imperfect of the potential mood, hich it is frequently connected, is properly an aorist, or indefinite tense; for it may refer to time past, present, or future: as, ”If therefore perfection _were_ by the Levitical priesthood, what further need _was_ there that an other priest _should rise_?”--_Heb_, vii, 11 ”They ht, as if the intention to purchase _now existed_”--_Murray's Parsing Exercises_, p 24 ”If it _were_ possible, they _shall deceive_ the very elect”--_Matt_, xxiv, 24 ”If the whole body _were_ an eye, where _were_ the hearing?”--_1 Corinthians_, xii, 17

”If the thankful _refrained_, it _would be_ pain and grief to theular_ _Plural_

1 If I loved, 1 If we loved, 2 If thou loved, 2 If you loved, 3 If he loved; 3 If they loved

OBS--In this tense, the auxiliary _did_ is souished from the indicative, by these circumstances; namely, that the time is indefinite, and that the supposition is always contrary to the fact: as, ”Great is the nuht attain to true wisdom, if they _did not already think_ themselves wise”--_Dillwyn's Reflections_, p 36 This implies that they _do think_ themselves wise; but an indicative supposition or concession--(as, ”Though they _did not think_ themselves wise, they were so--”) accords with the fact, and with the literal time of the tense,--here ti the idea of what is not, and known by the sense, is sons_; as, ”In a society of perfect ht, and _were deterly, it is obvious, that huanization to enforce God's laould be altogether unnecessary, and could serve no valuable purpose”--PRES

SHANNON: _Examiner_, No 78

IMPERATIVE MOOD

The imperative , exhorting, entreating, or per It is commonly used only in the second person of the present tense

PRESENT TENSE