e, Orlando was also a noble youth. When old Adam, at
last overcome by fatigue, sank in the footsteps of Orlando, Orlando
tries to encourage and assist him.
24. The increase in tonnage was not so rapid as it would have been were it
not for the Act of 1790.

INDICATIVE OR SUBJUNCTIVE.[82]--The modern tendency to drop the
subjunctive is unfortunate, for the distinction between the subjunctive
and the indicative is too useful to be abandoned.[83] A knowledge of the
difference between these modes in English is especially important in view
of the difficulty which pupils complain of in mastering the uses of the
Latin subjunctive or the Greek subjunctive and optative.[84] For these
reasons more space is given to the subjunctive in this book than would be
called for by a mere discussion of modern English usage.

FORMS of the SUBJUNCTIVE--In form the English
subjunctive differs from the indicative in several ways:--

1. In the single case of the verb _to be_ there are distinct
forms for the present and past tenses, namely:--

_Present_. _Past_
I, we \ I _were_, we \
thou, you } _be_. thou _wert_, you } _were_.
he, they/ he _were_, they/

EXAMPLES.--"See that my room _be_[85] got ready at once." "I will work you
a banner if you _be_[85] victorious." "The headsman feels if the axe
_be_[85] sharp." "Take care lest you _be_ deceived." "Judge not that ye
_be_ not judged." "I will beard them, though they _be_[85] more fanged than
wolves and bears." "If I _were_ you, I would not say that." "If you
_were_ more studious, you would rank high." "Would that my parents _were_
here!"

2. In _other verbs_ the subjunctive form is distinguishable
from the indicative in the second and third persons singular
by the absence of the personal endings _-th,-s_, or _-st_: as,

_Present Indicative_: I have, thou hast, he has (hath).
_Subjunctive_: I have, thou have, he have.
_Past Indicative_: I had, thou hadst, he had.
_Subjunctive_: I had, thou had, he had.

_Present Indicative_: I come, thou comest, he comes (cometh).
_Subjunctive_: I come, thou come, he come.
_Past Indicative_: I came, thou earnest, he came.
_Subjunctive_: I came, thou came, he came.

[82] "Foundations," pp. 98-101.
[83] "Some people seem to think that the subjunctive mood is as good as
lost, that it is doomed, and that its retention is hopele