ABSTRACT

Temporal relationship in complex sentences between several actions: the action described in the dependent clause occurs after the action of the main clause: They kept calling him until he finally heard them. ( sequence of tenses)

Verbal mood which characterizes an action as possible or probable. The Indo-European lan-guages have no separate paradigm for this mood, using mainly the subjunctive to express it, e.g. the Latin subjunctive existimem ‘I would suspect.’