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even adjective clause or—as some will have it—sentence. The 
adjective clause is, however, more often developed directly by 
the aid of a relative word, as indicated in the following section. 
So far as observed, the subjunctive is not inflected in its 
substantive service, except by the use of a merely case-exhib¬ 
iting article, or that of a primarily appositional demonstrative 
accomplishing a virtually inflective result. Verbally, on the 
other hand, it has the full inflectional scope of the indicative, 
including in Spanish even the expression of futurity meas¬ 
ured from a point of reckoning in the past, as will be indicated 
later. Of all the forms of verbal noun, the subjunctive is ac¬ 
cordingly the most completely equipped for verbal service—a 
fact of fundamental importance, as one of the grounds of its 
employment, which will be indicated in the chapter on “ Choice 
of Verbal Forms.” 
THE VERBAL ADJECTIVES. 
Intending, in what remains of this chapter, merely to give 
a hint of what might be accomplished in the study of further 
hybrids by applying suggested methods;, I present remaining 
topics with increasing incompleteness. How the now to be 
examined hybrids operate as verbs, can hardly need investiga¬ 
tion, after what has been said of the analogous operation of 
verbal nouns. How they operate as adjectives was indicated 
in the examination of relative words (See “Pronouns,” pages 
95-102), it being therein concluded that any verb may operate 
as a virtually adjective limiter of its subject (or object), being 
at t'he same time attended by its object (or subject) and indi¬ 
rect associates. 56 Discussion of inflectional possibilities would 
almost be a repetition of pages 184-187. Accordingly I turn 
at once to 
se Thus, in “The hook you gave my brother,” your-giving-to-my-brother 
operates as distinguisher of the intended book from other books. 
