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Allen & Greenough · Part Second — Syntax › Indirect Discourse

§591. Intermediate Clauses

A Subordinate clause takes the Subjunctive—

  • When it expresses the thought of some other person than the speaker or writer (Informal Indirect Discourse), or
  • When it is an integral part of a Subjunctive clause or equivalent Infinitive (Attraction).

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.