33 This rule is not absolute. Sometimes the distinction is unimportant, and the feeling of the moment often determines the number of the verb.[↑]
34 So I can strike, etc.[↑]
35 So I could strike, etc.[↑]
36 So I can have struck, etc.[↑]
37 So I could have struck, etc.[↑]
38 For the so-called infinitive clause, in which the infinitive has a subject of a peculiar kind, see [§§ 324–328].[↑]
39 After verbs of wishing, etc., they express purpose ([§ 403]); after verbs of believing, etc., they are in indirect discourse ([§ 431]).[↑]
40 The only exceptions are trifling differences in spelling.[↑]
41 Coördinate conjunctions are also called coördinating, and subordinate conjunctions are also called subordinating.[↑]
42 Compare the exclamatory sentence ([§ 3]) and the exclamatory nominative ([§ 88, 4]).[↑]