Future Perfect, Shall I have loved? Shall I have been loving?

POTENTIAL MODE.

Present,

Must I love?

Past,.

Might I love?

Pres. Perfect, Must I have loved? Past Perfect, Might I have loved?

114. Negative Forms.

1. To conjugate a verb negatively, place not after it, or after the first auxiliary; but before the infinitive and the participles.

Ex.-Indicative, I learn not, or I do not learn. I have not learned. I learned not, or did not learn, &c.

Infinitive.-Not to learn. Not to have learned.

Participle. Not learning. Not learned. Not having learned.

2. To conjugate a verb interrogatively and negatively, in the indicative and potential modes, place the subject and not after the verb, or after the first auxiliary.

Ex.-Learn I not? or, Do I not learn? Have I not learned? Did I not learn? &c.

115. Exercises.

Write a synopsis of the transitive verbs write, think, row, arouse, build, conquer, command, entreat, teach, and instruct, in the Indicative, Subjunctive, and Potential Modes, Active and Passive Voices.

Tell the mode, tense, person, and number of each verb in the following sentences:

1. He has gone. 2. I might write. 3. We had gone. 4. He had been assured. 5. If I were loved. 6. They may have been left. 7. You were seen. 8. Thou wilt have loved. 9. She will have been invited. 10. He might have built. 11. You might have been seen. 12. The vessel will have sailed.

13. We might have written. 14. They were loved. been loved. 16. If he is loved. 17. Though he love. he is loved. seen.

19. If I may be

15. If I had

18. Though 20. We can go. 21. Go.

22. Remain. 23. If he return. 24. If he returns.

116. Irregular Verbs.

An Irregular Verb is one which does not form its past tense and perfect participle by adding d or ed to the present tense; as, do, did, done; go, went, gone,

The following list contains the Principal Parts of most of the Irregular verbs. Those marked R have also the regular forms.

Rem. The auxiliaries are all irregular verbs. Their forms may be found in the paradigm for their conjugation.

117. Defective and Redundant Verbs.

1. Defective Verbs are those which want some of the Principal Parts.

Ex.-Beware, from be and aware, used mostly in the imperative mode, but may be used wherever be would occur in the conjugation of the verb to be; as, “Beware the awful avalanche!" "If angels fell, why should not men beware?"

Ought, used in both present and past tenses; as, "I know I ought to go," (now); "I knew he ought to have gone," (then). Quoth, used for said; as, "Not I,' quoth Sancho." It always stands before its subject. Quod is also used in the same sense,

by old authors.

wit, in the sense of know; as, To wit, i. e., namely. Wot, wis, wert, wist, wote, derived from wit, are found in old authors.