alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

ETYMOJ,OG Y - VERBS-TENSES. 78
403. This teuse is used also to expreEB what is habitual, or always true;
as, "He goes to church ,,_u Virtue is its own reward "-" Vice produces
misery."
404. It is used, iu auimated narration, to express past events with force
and interest, as if they were present j as, .. Cresar leaves Gaul, crosses the
Rubicon, and enters Italy" (11146, 5).
405. It is used sometimes instead of the present-perfect tense, in speak.
in~ "f authors long since dead, when refel'ence is made to their works
whieh still (>xist; as, .. Moses tells UB who were the descendants of Abra·
ham "_u Virgil imitates Homer j" instead of ,. hfU told," ,. has imitated."
406. It is used in dependent clauses after such words as when, before,
if, as soon as, after, till, and al"o after relatire pronouns, to express the
relative time of a future action, that is, of au action future at the time of
speaking, but which will be p!'esent at the time referred to j as, .. When
he comes, he will be welcome" _u We shall get our I