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Its force goes one step further than the second future of SHALL, but implies an abstract necessity rather than compulsion on the part of another. He shall has so far reference to the speaker, as to imply, that he will himself enforce his command: he must has reference only to the person spoken of, who may be coerced by some circumstance over which the speaker possibly may have no control. It is evident that these two last are not a necessary part of the regular verb, but are merely called in to aid in the expression of circumstance rather than of time.

The following is the conjugation of the perfect auxiliaries.

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TO HAVE, when compounded with other verbs, or with itself, requires to be followed by

* The imperative mode is made in the other persons with the imperative of the verb, to let, joined with a pronoun in the accusative. Let me have,-let him have, let us have,-let them have.

the participle past; and thus forms all those subdivisions of past time known in the Latin grammar, as perfectum, and plusquam perfectum, as, I have had or loved, I had had, or loved, &c. With the assistance of SHALL, it makes the conditional subjunctive future, as I SHALL HAVE seen him by the time you arrive. If I SHOULD HAVE accomplished it by the specified time. The compound tenses formed with. HAVE are

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BE is compounded with both participles: with the participle past it forms the passive voice, as I am loved; with the participle present it forms a very nice modification of time, implying a continued or unfinished action, as, I am writing; I was writing when he came in. With the verbs come and go it forms a kind of immediate

future, as I am going: he is coming; unless the sense be modified by an adverb of time, and then we can say, I am going next year, or the year after next. The tenses compounded with

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