Note 4 — Section 61. TENDER⁠[1], TRUSTY, AND TRUE. I.

Say ‘I could scarcely imagine, that he ever really had been a little child and had to be fed with a teaspoon (und mit einem Theelöffel habe gefüttert werden müssen)’. By carefully reading §§ 29 and 30 of the Appendix, the student will see that the verbs depending on the governing verb ‘imagine’ must stand in the Perfect of the Subjunctive Mood. According to S. 52, N. 8, however, the auxiliary ‘sei’ may be omitted in the clause ‘that he ever really had been a little child’.