Write the verbs move, prove, believe in the different persons and numbers of the Perfect tense. Correct the following. You hadst believed; the horses has moved.

Write the verbs hear, receive, arrive, in the different persons and numbers of the Pluperfect tense. What is the sign of this tense?

Write the verbs obey, command and trust, in the different persons and numbers of the First Future tense. Are these verbs regular or irregular? Why?

Write the verbs hear, believe, and look, in the different persons and numbers of the Second Future tense. How many tenses in the Indicative mode? Define each. Tell the different numbers and persons in each.

POTENTIAL MODE.

PRESENT TENSE.

NOTE. The present tense of the potential mode is used to denote either present or future time.

Singular.

1. I may, can, or must love.

Signs-May, can, must.

2. Thou mayst, canst, or must love. 3. He may, can, or must love.

Plural.

1. We may, can, or must love.

2. Ye, or you may, can, or must love. 3. They may, can or must love.

Singular.

1. I may, can, or must be loving.
2. Thou mayst,canst,or must be loving.
3. He may, can, or must be loving.

Plural.

1. We may, can, or must be loving.
2. Ye or you may,can,or must be loving.
3. They may, can, or must be loving.

Write the verbs create, destroy and deceive, in the different persons and numbers of the Present tense, of the Potential mode. Are these verbs regular? Why?

NOTE.-The Imperfect tense of the Potential mode is used to denote either past, present or future time.

*The terms Present and Imperfect are applicable, only in part, to the two first tenses of the Potential mode. May, can, and must when they are the signs of the present tense, refer either to future or to present time; and might, could, would, should, when they are the signs of the Imperfect tense, more commonly refer to present and future time, than to past.

The terms Present and Imperfect are retained in this work for the sake of uniformity with most English Grammars in use. Neither of the tense forms can be fully explained by a single term.

Write the verbs, defend, pretend, and convey, in the different persons and numbers of the Imperfect tense of the Potential mode.

Singular.

PERFECT TENSE.
Sign-May have.

1. I may or can have loved.

2. Thou mayst or canst have loved. 3. He may or can have loved.

Plural.

1. We may or can have loved.

2. Ye or you may or can have loved. 3. They may or can have loved.

Singular.

1. I may or can have been loving.
2. Thou mayst or canst have been loving
3. He may or can have been loving.

Plural.

1. We may or can have been loving.
2. Ye or you may or can have been loving
3. They may or can have been loving.

Write the verbs employ, prepare and owe in the different persons and numbers in the Perfect tense of the Potential mode. What is the sign of this tense?

PLUPERFECT.

Signs-Might, could, would, should or must have.

Singular.

1. I might, could, would or should have loved.*

2.

(Thou mightst, couldst, wouldst or shouldst have loved.
You might, could, would or should have loved.

3. He might, could, would or should have loved.

Plural.

1. We might, could, would or should have loved.

2. Ye or you might, could, would or should have loved.
3. They might, could, would or should have loved.

Write the verbs employ, prepare and owe in the different persons and numbers of all the tenses of the Potential mode. Tell the signs of all the tenses of the Indicative mode. Tell the signs of all the tenses of the Potential mode.

*For the Progressive form, place "been loving" after the auxiliaries.

IMPERATIVE MODE.

NOTE-A verb is not varied in the Imperative mode on account of person, or number. It has for its subject or nominative,a pronoun of the second person, singular or plural; and this pronoun is generally omitted. A verb in the Imperative mode is often preceded by do to render it more emphatic.

Annex if, though, unless, suppose, admit, grant, allow, or any word implying a condition, to each tense of the Indicative and Potential modes to form the Subjunctive; as,

Oral Exercises on the Verb To LOVE.

Name the tenses of the Indicative mode.

Decline (that is, give the forms of the different persons and numbers of) the Present tense of the Indicative mode, Indefinite form; Progressive form. Decline the verb love in the Imperfect tense in both forms.

What auxiliary is used as the sign of the Perfect tense?

Decline the Perfect tense in both forms.

What auxiliary is used in the Pluperfect tense? Decline the verb love in this tense.

Decline the verb love in the Future and Second Future tenses.

What words are signs of the Subjunctive mode?

How many tenses in the Subjunctive ?

Name the auxiliaries in each tense.

*Formerly it was customary to omit the terminations in the second and third persons of the Present tense of the Subjunctive mode. But now the terminations are generally retained except when the ellipsis of shall or should is implied; as, If he obey, i. e., if he shall or should obey.

How many persons has the Imperative mode? Ans. As one person always commands, exhorts or entreats another, the Imperative mode has only the second person.*

Name the Infinitive mode, and Participles of the verb love, and then begin with the present tense, Indicative mode, and name the first person, singular, of each tense in the Indicative and Potential modes. This is called a SYNOPSIS, which means a " general view."

SYNOPSIS OF THE VERB LOVE.

Let the following synopsis be thoroughly committed to memory:
PRINCIPAL PARTS-love, loved, loved.

INFINITIVE MODE-To love, to

have loved. PARTICIPLES-Loving, loved, having loved.

REMARK.—All regular verbs are conjugated like the verb love.

Model for Parsing the Verb.

SENTENCE. The keepers chain the lion.

ANALYZE. The keepers is the subject. Chain is the predicate, modified or limited by its object, the lion.

PARSE. Keepers is a common noun of the third person, piural number, masculine gender, nominative case, and is the subject of the verb chain. Rule 60.

Chain is a verb; it asserts or declares something of keepers; transitive—it takes an object, viz: lion; it shows what the keepers do to the lion; in the third person plural, because keepers is of the third person and plural number. It agrees with its nominative keepers, according to the

§ 76. RULE.

A verb agrees with its nominative case in number and person.

*A few instances of the use of the Imperative in the first and third persons will be enumerated in another place.