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APPENDIX I.

THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
IT is interesting to trace the processes that have
shaped our modern anomalous Conditional Mood.
For this purpose we will compare the Mood "as it
is," with the Mood " as it might have been."
Conditional Mood, as it is.
ANTECEDENT. CONSEQUENT.
f sees 1 f will know
were to see
If he should see me, he would know me.
had seen j would have known
5OS, 1, J

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As it might have been.
232 Out of the five forms of the Conditional Antecedent, three (those italicized above) are identical
with the Indicative; and out of three in the Consequent, one is Indicative. Once there were many
more separate Conditional forms; but they have
now fallen into disuse, and the Conditional Mood is
assimilated to the Indicative.