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THtE SUBJUNCTIVE.

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(Indicative form);" otherwise as simply "Conditional."
3. State whether the Conditional Verb is in the
Antecedent or Consequent.
It is good practice to replace Auxiliary Verbs by
their equivalents, either in the Indicative or the
Subjunctive, as the case may be.
i83 EXERCISE XXIX. (SPECIMEN).
State the Moods of italicized Verbs in the following Exercise:Hundreds of years ago, in the centre of the city of Rome
there suddenly appeared one morning a deep chasm or
pit. No one knew what could hate caused it, and no
one could fill it up. If earth or stone could have filled
it up, it would not have remained open long; but, although heaps upon heaps of stone and rubbish were
cast down, the pit still remained unfilled. The people
now began to fear that tle gods of Rome might intend
to punish the city, and they thought the pit might be
a sign of their anger. So they went to the priests to
ask them what they ought to do. The high priest replied
that the gods had sent the pit in anger at the citizens;
" Even though you wet on casting in earth for centuries,"
said he, "the pit would never be closed: it will always
remain open, until the most precious thing in Rome is
cast into it." On learning this, the citizens cast in their
gold and the women their bracelets and ear-rings, in the
hope that thus they might satisfyl the gods and close the
pit. But all was in vain, and it seemed as if nothing
would be of use. At last a young soldier named Marcus
Curtius, clothed in full armor and mounted on his