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must. The American seldom says “I must go”; he almost invariably says “I have to go,” 67 or “I have got to go,” in which last case, as we have seen, got is the auxiliary.

The most common inflections of the verb for mode and voice are shown in the following paradigm of to bite:

ACTIVE VOICE
Indicative Mode
Present	I bite	Past Perfect	I had of bit
Present Perfect	I have bit	Future	I will bite
Past	I bitten	Future Perfect	(wanting)
Subjunctive Mode
Present	If I bite	Past Perfect	If I had of bit
Past	If I bitten
Potential Mode
Present	I can bite	Past	I could bite
Present Perfect	(wanting)	Past Perfect	I could of bit
Imperative (or Optative) Mode
Future	I shall (or will)
	bite
Infinitive Mode
(wanting)
PASSIVE VOICE
Indicative Mode
Present	I am bit	Past Perfect	I had been bit
Present Perfect	I been bit	Future	I will be bit
Past	I was bit	Future Perfect	(wanting)
Subjunctive Mode
Present	If I am bit	Past Perfect	If I had of been
Past	If I was bit		bit
Potential Mode
Present	I can be bit	Past	I could be bit
Present Perfect	(wanting)	Past Perfect	I could of been bit
Imperative Mode
(wanting)
Infinitive Mode
(wanting)

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