Exercise
In the following conditional clauses, tell whether each verb is
indicative or subjunctive, and what kind of condition:--
1. The voice, if he speak to you, is of similar physiognomy,
clear, melodious, and sonorous.--CARLYLE.
2. Were you so distinguished from your neighbors, would you, do
you think, be any the happier?--THACKERAY.
3. Epaminondas, if he was the man I take him for, would have sat
still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.--EMERSON.
4. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was
regarded as a prodigy.--MACAULAY.
5. I told him, although it were the custom of our learned in
Europe to steal inventions from each other,... yet I would take
such caution that he should have the honor entire.--SWIFT.
6. If he had reason to dislike him, he had better not have
written, since he [Byron] was dead.--N.P. WILLIS.
7. If it were prostrated to the ground by a profane hand, what
native of the city would not mourn over its fall?--GAYARRE.
8. But in no case could it be justified, except it be for a
failure of the association or union to effect the object for
which it was created.--CALHOUN.
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