(2) That it may or can, or could or might be so taken, as ‘He may or can go.’ The Mayly Mood.
(3) Or that it is to be wished that it may or might be taken, as ‘I wish,’ or ‘Oh that I could go.’ The Wish Mood.
Or that it is a hinge time-taking on which another hangs, as ‘If you ask (hinge), you will receive (on-hang).’
Or as bidden to be taken, as ‘Go thy way.’
Stead-marks and Way-marks of Time-takings.
Case.
Things named in speech, so as to mark the stead of the beginning or end, or of the way of the time-taking at any point of its length or outreach in time or room, are Case-things.
There are, however, two cases which are speech-cases and not stead-marks or way-marks:—
(1) That of the of-spoken thing (nominative), the thing of which the speech speaks, as ‘The bird flies’; and