All of these languages inherit their subjunctive from Latin, where the subjunctive mood combines both forms and usages from a number of original Indo-European inflection sets ( described above ), including the original subjunctive and the optative mood.
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However, the optative mood is not used in sentences referring to a hypothetical situation in the present or past; in such sentences the optative is replaced by the imperfect, aorist, or pluperfect indicative, with ( " an " ) in the main clause.
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But he also opposes the defeatism of the Catholics, as in the poem ` From the canton of expectation'( in ` The Haw Lantern') which begins : ` We lived deep in a land of optative moods, / under high, banked clouds of resignation .'
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All three of the previously mentioned groups of verbs strong, weak and preterite-present are derived from PIE thematic verbs; an additional very small group derives from PIE athematic verbs, and one verb " * wiljan " " to want " forms its present indicative from the PIE optative mood.
