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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (871)	2/1/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 4710

Hi Zeev, The scope of your interests and abilities never ceases to amaze me. I have been mulling over in my mind one of your earlier posts which contained some formal or archaic (or both)French. Something like: Il fall–t que nous passƒmes i‡i. I'm not sure I remember the exact form. It's probably thirty years since I read any French with the pass‚ simple or historic past and certainly not those weird subjunctives. (See my earlier post today to Sowbug about current English conditional/subjunctive sentences.) Message 3314900 In more modern French, they use the imperfect for the "if" clause and the conditional for the dependent clause. They never use the subjunctive along with "if". Ex: Si j'avais de l'argent, j'acheterais quelque chose. But to answer your question, I really don't know. Now I have something else to look up! Jack

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