§ 50. Uses of Subjunctive and Infinitive.

—After a word expressing (a) eagerness, desire, intention to do anything, and (b) after one signifying go, come, stay, etc., and (c) after teach, use the infinitive with the preposition ki; (d) after learn, use the infinitive with the preposition i; but (e) after a word expressing request,

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command, advice, consent, or permission to another person to do anything, use the subjunctive. (f) In a clause expressing the object in view, use the subjunctive followed by the particle ai.

Examples.

(a)	E hiahia ana ratou ki te haere, they desire to go.
(b)	E noho ana ia ki te hanga i te taiepa, he is staying to make the fence.
(c)	Na wai koe i whakaako ki te whakairo rakau? Who taught you to carve wood?
(d)	E ako ana taku tamaiti i te tuhituhi, my child is learning to write.
(e)	I ki mai ia kia haere ahau, he told me to go, or he said that I should go.
	I tuku ahau i a ia kia haere, I allowed him to go.
(f)	I haere mai ia inanahi kia kite ai ia i a Te Hau, he came yesterday in order that he might see Te Hau.