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.
- ↑ These forms are rare.