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150 ~APPENDIX.Pa.25

[Par. 235.

Or, taking another Verb, e.g. "come ":

235 I. B. Modern Conditional Mood with
Inflections.
With the general decay of Infiections, the Conditional "if he conme" has fallen into such disuse
that it-may now be called extinct. Hence the new
scheme with inflections isANTECEDENT. CONSEQUENT.
[comes [(no form)
(If he) came (he) (no form) (mne).
hod come Jhad seen4

1 Rarely used, except by pedants. But "1 be 11is still allowable
as an exception: "1if it be true."
2 Not used.
3This ambiguous form of the Subjunctive is used two or three
times by Shakespeare. See Shakespearian Grammar. Par. 361, "1If
I rebuked you, then I check'd (i e. should checkl my fr~iends."
Used only in Poetry, and archaic or elevated prose.