Word classes in Radical Construction Grammar

Pluperfect > The plu−perfect is formed with the auxiliary HAD, followed by the past participle of the main verb: He had always wanted to travel in Africa She had already left when Philippe arrived I bought the book that Corinne had recommended to me > The plu−perfect shows that the action has been done before another action (in the past)

THE WAYYIQTOL AS ‘PLUPERFECT’: WHEN AND WHY

expressed by a pluperfect tense, and attempts to articulate how we might discern it in a given passage, and the communicative effect of such a usage The article concludes that there is an unmarked pluperfect usage of the wayyiqtol verb form; and that it may be detected when one of three conditions is met Application of

The Pluperfect Subjunctive

The Pluperfect Subjunctive The Pluperfect Subjunctive, active and passive, is a Secondary Sequence Tense, and is never used in Purpose or Result Clauses It is expressed in English by the helping verb phrases might have or would have The formation rule is simple Pluperfect Active Subjunctive: Use the perfect active stem (third principal

GRAMMAR POINTS: PAST TENSES

Pluperfect -ing Had + Been + Ving Pluperfect simple Had + past participle Preterite -Ing / Past continuous Was / were + Ving Simple Past / Preterite V-ed or irregular Flashback of an ongoing action EX- He > rappelle d'une action antérieure qui s'inscrit dans la durée List of short actions: finished and dated > pour rapporter des fait

Chapter 30: The Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive

pluperfect active subjunctive is the perfect active infinitive, plus personal endings (3) Perfect and pluperfect passive subjunctive forms are created by replacing the indicative sum and eram with their subjunctive counterparts, sim and essem (4) “Primary” tenses are present, future and

The Perfect Tenses I ACTIVE VOICE

The tenses of the perfect system (perfect, pluperfect & future perfect) are all formed off the perfect stem, obtained from the third principal part of the verb Note the regular principal parts for 1st and 2d conjugation verbs: vocö, -äre, -ävï, -ätum and dëbeö, -ëre, -uï, -itum I ACTIVE VOICE Add to the perfect stem the following

The Subjunctive, Part I (conditionals, sequence of tenses

future pluperfect future perfect (1) if the main verb is primary, any subjunctive in a subordinate clause will be either present or perfect In this primary sequence, the present subjunctive of the subordinate clause expresses incomplete action, i e action contemporaneous with or subsequent to

THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: SUMMARY OF FORMS AND CLAUSE TYPES

subjunctive (imperfect = time same or later than main verb, pluperfect = time before main verb); see Wheelock pp 204–05 5-7 Cum CLAUSES (Wheelock Ch 31) Definition: a subordinate clause introduced by cum meaning when/since/although and describing an action somehow associated with the action in the main clause FOUR TYPES: