28. I had began to think that you had forsook us.
29. I am afraid that I cannot learn him to do it.
30. I guess that I will stop.
31. I expect that he has gone to Boston.
32. There ain't any use of trying.
33. I have got no mother.
34. Can I speak to you?
35. He had ought to see him.
+Explanation+.--As _ought_ is never a participle, it cannot be used after
_had_ to form a compound tense.
+Caution+.--A conditional or a concessive clause takes a verb in the
indicative mode when the action or being is assumed as a fact, or when the
uncertainty lies merely in the speaker's knowledge of the fact. But when
the action or being in such a clause is merely thought of as a contingency,
or in such a clause the speaker prefers to put hypothetically something of
whose truth or untruth he has no doubt, the subjunctive is used. The
subjunctive is frequently used in indirect questions, in expressing a wish
for that which it is impossible to attain at once or at all, and instead of
the potential mode in independent clauses.
+Examples+.--
1. If (= _since_) it rains, why do you go?
2. If it _rains_ (now), I cannot go out.
3. If it _rain_, the work will be delayed.
4. Though it _rain_ to-morrow, we must march.
5. If there _be_ mountains, there must be valleys between.
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