This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...and in verbs H"7 throughout, the final PI--being apocopated; the apocope occasioning changes of the vowels. Elsewhere the common future is used in a jussive sense. Q. What does it express? A. It has the general force of the present subjunctive in the classical tongues, and thus is used to express command, wish ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...and in verbs H"7 throughout, the final PI--being apocopated; the apocope occasioning changes of the vowels. Elsewhere the common future is used in a jussive sense. Q. What does it express? A. It has the general force of the present subjunctive in the classical tongues, and thus is used to express command, wish (imperative), prohibition, &c.; and also in conditional sentences. Q. Is the future ever used as an imperative? A. The imperative has to borrow from these forms of the future all persons except the second, and the second also when negative. Q. What changes does the imperative itself undergo? A. In the regular verb the imperative paragogic is used in Qal, and both the lengthened and shortened imperatives in Hiphyil; the imperative apocopate in verbs H"7 throughout. Q. What is the signification of these imperatives? A. Similar to that of the futures, but not so strongly marked; the imperative paragogic is often merely emphatic. Q. What peculiarity is observed in the uses of the preterite and future? A. In continued narrations of the past the first verb is in the preterite, but those which follow are in the future; and in continued descriptions of the future the first verb is in the future, but the verbs which follow are in the preterite. Q. How is this succession of time or thought indicated? A. By the use of Vav conversive; a vav prefixed to the preterite like the copulative conjunction, and to the future in all circumstances with the pointing of the article. Q. Which form of the future is used with Vav conversive? A. The future apocopate, when it exists in the conjugation; but generally in the first person, especially in the later books, the future paragogic. THE VERB WITH SUFFIXES. Q. Are the verbal suffixes of the several persons promi...
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