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The New Latin Primer.

Primary Tenses of the Subjunctive are represented—
In the Active by the Future Participle with essĕ;
In the Passive by fŏrĕ (fŭtūrum essĕ) ūt with Subj.[1]

Secondary Tenses of the Subjunctive are represented—
In the Active by the Future Participle with fĕissĕ;
In the Passive by fŭtūrum fŭisse ŭt with Subj.' The Imperfect Subjunctive is sometimes treated as a Primary tense.

§ 427. III.—Dependent Sentences.—The Infinitive occasionally appears in those Relative sentences, in which quī equals ĕt ĭs, but very rarely in really dependent ones.

§ 428. The following table shows the correspondence of Tenses in the Indirect Discourse of a speech which is reported some time after it has been delivered.

Direct Discourse.   Indirect Discourse.
Principal Sentences.
Indicative. Present   Infinitive. Present.
Future Fut Inf.,usally without essĕ
Perfect Perfect
Imperfect
Pluperfect
Subjunctive Present or Perfect Periphrastic Future with essĕ, § 204.
Imperfect Periphrastic Future with essĕ or fŭissĕ.
Pluperfect Periphrastic Future with fŭissĕ, § 204.
Dependent Sentences.
Indicative
or
Subjunctive.
Present Subjunctive. Imperfect
Future
Imperfect
Perfect Pluperfect
Fut.Perfect
Pluperfect

§ 429. Retention of Person and Tenses of Direct Discourse.

Of the changes included under (A), (B), and (C), those of (A) are alone found in all Indirect Discourse.

  1. These forms are rare.