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Par. 585.] THE REGULAR VERB.

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VOICE.
Complete,
Complete. Post-Conditional.
DITIONAL MOOD.
(Ie) sll have helped (I) shall have been elpin
(he) would have helped (he) would have been help(I) should (I) should ing
PURPOSE.
may have a, may have been
J helped J helping
might have ] might have been
helped lhelping
TIVE MOOD.
have helped
Future Indicative.
585 The Infinitive.
The results of the confusion between the Noun
Infinitive, the Gerundial Infinitive, the Active Participle, and the Verbal Noun, are so important in
their influence on modern English that they deserve
special mention. The old forms of the Infinitive
mentioned in Par. 551 had been modified as follows:21