Note 1 — Chapter XVIII · Strong Verbs: Class I. (See § 17.)
Reading edition
Lounsbury, English Language, Part II, § 241.
2. Usage sanctions mood, but the better spelling would be mode. It is from the Lat. modus, whereas mood (= temper) is O.E. mōd.
3. Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, § 255.
4. Thus when Alfred writes that an event took place before the founding of Rome, he uses the subjunctive: ǣr ðǣm ðe Rōmeburh getimbrod wǣre = before Rome were founded; but, æfter ðǣm ðe Rōmeburh getimbrod wæs = after Rome was founded.
5. “By the time of Ælfric, however, the levelling influence of the indicative [after verbs of saying] has made considerable progress.”—Gorrell, Indirect Discourse in Anglo-Saxon (Dissertation, 1895), p. 101.
6. Hotz, On the Use of the Subjunctive Mood in Anglo-Saxon (Zürich, 1882).
7. Not, He commanded the bier to be set down. The Mn.E. passive in such sentences is a loss both in force and directness.
8. Callaway, The Absolute Participle in Anglo-Saxon (Dissertation, 1889), p. 19.
9. This is not the place to discuss the Gerund in Mn.E., the so-called “infinitive in -ing.” The whole subject has been befogged for the lack of an accepted nomenclature, one that shall do violence neither to grammar nor to history.