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Conjugation of Incomplete Auxiliaries. 
May is used to express permission, desire, possibility and 
probabihty. ■’ 
Indicatiye Mood. 
Present Tense Fast Tense 
/, you, he (etc.) may 7, you, he (etc) might. 
Infinitive: to be allowed. 
Examples: You may call on M r Long. 
May you prosper in your undertaking. 
We may find a buyer (uncertain). 
Can is used to denote power; as I can riete. 
Indicative Mood. 
Present Tense Fast Tense 
( you, he (etc.) can 7, you, he (etc.) could. 
Infinitive: to be able. 
Must is used to denote necessity; as You must go. 
Must is only used in the present tense.' 
Present Tense: I, you, he (etc.) must. Fast: I was obliged. 
Infinitive: to be obliged, to have to. 
Note: 1 must not — idj barf nid)t. 
1 was not allowed — id) burfte nietet. 
Ought (foü) is often used for must and always tokes the 
preposition to after it. It has only one tense — the" present indi 
cative: r 
7, you, he (etc.) ought. 
Shail and will are joiued to the infinitive mood of the Prin 
cipal verb, to denote future time. ] 
To express simple futurity, shail is used in the first ner- 
son, and mH in the second and tkird. Will in the first person 
denotes determination; and shail in the second and third 
persons, denotes authority. e. g.: 
1 shail write you by return. 
He will answer by telegram, 
I will not altöw it. 
He shail have the rnoney. 
Indicative Mood. 
Present Tense Past Tense 
f, you he (etc.) shail or will /, you, he (etc.) should or would 
AU the auxiliary verbs of mood are incomplete having- only 
the present and past indicative. ° J