This tense of the subjunctive mood ought to be called the _elliptical
future_.
The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first future tenses
of this mood, are conjugated, in every respect, like the same tenses of
the indicative, with this exception; in the subjunctive mood, a
conjunction implying doubt, &c. is prefixed to the verb. In the second
future tense of this mood, the verb is conjugated thus:
Second Future Tense.
_Singular._ _Plural_.
1. If I shall have loved, 1. If we shall have loved,
2. If thou shalt have loved, 2. If you shall have loved,
3. If he shall have loved. 3. If they shall have loved.
Look at the same tense in the indicative mood, and you will readily
perceive the distinction between the two conjugations.
IMPERATIVE MOOD.
_Singular._ _Plural_.
2. Love, _or_ love thou, _or_ do 2. Love, _or_ love ye _or_ you, _or_
thou love. do ye _or_ you love.
NOTE. We cannot command, exhort, &c. either in _past_ or _future_
time; therefore a verb in this mood is always in the _present_
tense.
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