Part 23 (1/2)

13 The Balloon Society recently invited Mr Gould to read before theret that the shortness of his visit will prevent hied to hiratify land the British had given him very honorable positions in America in order to have his help if they had any trouble with the colonies

16 Up and down the engines pounded It is a good twenty-one knots now, and the upper deck abaft the chart-house began rapidly to fill

17 Mr and Mrs Lincoln regret that a previous engage Mrs Black's kind invitation for Thursday

18 Mr Rockill accept with pleasure the invitation of Mr and Mrs

Pe, December 3d

19 I am sure that he has been there and did as required of hiht probably have been desirous, in the first place, to have dried his clothes and refreshed himself

21 He could not have failed to have aroused suspicion

22 When, on the return of Dr Primrose's son Moses from the Fair, the family had discovered how he had been cheated, we are shown an admirable picture of home life

23 Apart from his love, Orlando was also a noble youth When old Adaue, sank in the footsteps of Orlando, Orlando tries to encourage and assist hie was not so rapid as it would have been were it not for the Act of 1790

INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNCTIVE[82]--The modern tendency to drop the subjunctive is unfortunate, for the distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative is too useful to be abandoned[83] A knowledge of the difference between these lish is especially important in view of the difficulty which pupils co the uses of the Latin subjunctive or the Greek subjunctive and optative[84] For these reasons iven to the subjunctive in this book than would be called for by a e

FORMS of the SUBJUNCTIVE--In forlish subjunctive differs frole case of the verb _to be_ there are distinct forms for the present and past tenses, namely:--

_Present_ _Past_ I, we I _were_, we thou, you } _be_ thou _wert_, you } _were_

he, they/ he _were_, they/

EXAMPLES--”See that ot ready at once” ”I ork you a banner if you _be_[85] victorious” ”The headsman feels if the axe _be_[85] sharp” ”Take care lest you _be_ deceived” ”Judge not that ye _be_ not judged” ”I will beard theed than wolves and bears” ”If I _were_ you, I would not say that” ”If you _were_ h” ”Would that my parents _were_ here!”

2 In _other verbs_ the subjunctive foruishable froular by the absence of the personal endings _-th,-s_, or _-st_: as,

_Present Indicative_: I have, thou hast, he has (hath)

_Subjunctive_: I have, thou have, he have

_Past Indicative_: I had, thou hadst, he had

_Subjunctive_: I had, thou had, he had

_Present Indicative_: I come, thou comest, he comes (cometh)

_Subjunctive_: I come, thou come, he come

_Past Indicative_: I came, thou earnest, he came

_Subjunctive_: I came, thou came, he came

[82] ”Foundations,” pp 98-101

[83] ”Soood as lost, that it is doomed, and that its retention is hopeless If its function were generally appreciated, it ht even now be saved If we lose the Subjunctive Verb, it will certainly be a grievous ie, were it only for its value in giving variation to diction--and I make bold to assert that the writer who helps to keep it up deserves public gratitude”--John Earle: English Prose, its Elee, p 172

[84] ”The lecturer also put in a plea for ht to be es Many of the difficult questions of Latin syntax lish, if only ere careful to treat our English critically Whereasthe existence of a Subjunctive Mood Until teachers recognize generally that, in such a sentence as 'If he had done it, it had been better,' we have a Subjunctive in both clauses, and a sentence essentially different frolish must forfeit half its value, both as a mental discipline and as a means of approach to Latin, Greek, and German”--From a report of a Lecture by Prof Sonnenschein, of the Mason College, quoted in Earle's ”English Prose,” p 55

[85] In such sentences the indicative would be, according to e, correct, and it is !” ”If thou _go_, see that thou _offend_ not” ”It is better he _die_” ”Though he _slay_ me, yet will I trust him” ”Unless he _behave_[86] better, he will be punished” ”If I will that he _tarry_ till I come, what is that to thee?” ”Govern well thy appetite, lest sin _surprise_ thee” ”If htened” ”I wish I _knehere Charles is”

The perfect and pluperfect subjunctives are of course formed by means of the subjunctive present and past tenses of ”have”