Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 194

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[*] 194. There are two Periphrastic Conjugations, known respectively as the First (or Active) and the Second (or Passive).

[*] a. The First Periphrastic Conjugation combines the Future Active Participle with the forms of sum , and denotes a future or intended action.

[*] b. The Second Periphrastic Conjugation combines the Gerundive with the forms of sum , and denotes obligation, necessity, or propriety.

[*] c. The periphrastic forms are inflected regularly throughout the Indicative and Subjunctive and in the Present and Perfect Infinitive.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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