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Some common idioms and syntactic features that should be noted may be followed up in chapter 5, including the indefinite pronoun man / mon / me (5.4.3), gan / con used with an infinitive verb to express a past tense (5.6.3), the simple present and past tenses where today we would use progressive ‘is / was + ‐ing’ (5.6.1 ‐ 5.6.2), word‐order in that clauses (5.9.4). It is often tricky to capture the sense of the subjunctive mood, since it is so much more widely used in Middle English than today; examples of appropriate translations are given in 5.6.6.