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Par. 236, 237.] CONDITIONAL MOOD.

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236 II. A. Regular Conditional Mood with
" shall."
Bearing in mind that " shall" and " should" are
nearly equivalent to " am to " and " were to," the
reader will perceive the regularity of the following -
ANTECEDENT. CONSEQUENT.
shall,2 [be l to] shall see
If le should, were to, should see.
corIf h ae should have seen
or [hadlbeen1 to] l J

237 II. B. Modern Conditional Mood with
" shall."
In course of time people came to think " shall"
and " should" harsh words to use to any one to
whom (Second Person), or about whom (Third
Person), they were speaking. But when " shall" and
" should " were preceded by " if," the " if" removed
the notion of compulsion. Consequently "shall "
and " should" were replaced by "will" and
I Rarely, or never used.
2 Used by Shakespeare. Compare "If you should have taken vengeance on my faults, I never had (i.e. should have) lived."-Cymbeline, v. i. 8. "If he shall come" is common in Shakespeare.