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—§ 141 SYNTAX.—MOODS. 271an indefinite, negative, or interrogative word, it requires thesubjunctive mood ; as,Sunt (h o m S n e s) q u i dicant, ,Some people say.N l m o est q u i haud intelligat, There is no one who does not understand.Quis est qui utilia fugiat $ IVho is there that shuns what is useful?637.—EXPLANATION.—This rule takes effectonly when the antecedentis something indefinite, and when the relative clause is the predicate ofthe sentence, i. e. when it expresses what is affirmed or denied respectingthe subject of the verb, and has for its antecedent, the indefinite, negative,or interrogative itself, and not any intervening word. These are indispensableconditions of this rule.638. Gbs. 1. The indefinites referred to in this rule are the indefinitepronouns (127-1, and 128, except quldain), and the periphrastic expressions,eat qui, " some one," sunt qui, fuerunt qui, "some ;" to which maybe added the verbs reperio, irivenio, Itabeo, adsum, dcsum, venio, and someothers, used in a similar manner, by which indefinite expressions are formednearly of the same import with est qui, sunt qui,