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 the sequels in the future to preceding actions or events regarded as incomplete at the time of speaking, and therefore in the imperfect, imperative, or even participle. This is in form an ordinary, and therefore shares its various vocalization (, , , as , and ); e.g. , after an imperfect, &c., and so it happens = and it will happen. It has, however, the effect, in certain verbal forms, of shifting the tone from the penultima, generally on to the ultima, e.g., consecutive form , , where it is co-ordinated with another , which again is the consecutive to an. See further on this usage in § 112.

As innumerable examples show, the of the first syllable is retained in the strong perf. consec. Qal, as formerly before the tone, so now in the secondary tone, and therefore necessarily takes. On the other hand, the ō of the second syllable in verbs middle ō upon losing the tone necessarily becomes ŏ, e.g..

The shifting forward of the tone after the of the  is, however, not consistently carried out. It is omitred—(a) always in the 1st ''pers. pl., e.g. ; (b) regularly in Hiphʿil before the afformatives  and, see ; and (c'') in many cases in verbs  and , almost always in the 1st sing. of, and in  if the vowel of the 2nd syllable is î, ,  ff., , &c., except In  (only , before ) and the 2nd sing. masc. of Hiphʿil-forms before, , , , ; similarly in Piʿēl before , ,. On the other hand the tone is generally moved forward if the second syllable has ê (in  &c., in , , ); but cf. also  and frequently, always before the counter-tone,,. With ā in the penultima the form is, and probably also  , ,  with little Tēlîšā, a postpositive accent.

But before a following the ultima mostly bears the tone on phonetic grounds, e.g. , ,  (by the side of ), &c. (cf., however,, before , , , ); , cf. , (but also  ). Likewise, before, , and , e.g. , , (cf., however, , ); on verbs , see  and § ee.

(d) The tone always keeps its place when such a perfect stands in, e.g. , ;  , ; sometimes even in the lesser pause, as , ,  (where see Driver), with ; and frequently also immediately before a tone-syllable (according to ), as in  , , , —but also  ,. ,.