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I (or me), you, he (or him), we (or us), they (or them) to see.

Present Perfect Tense

I (or me), you, he (or him), we (or us), they (or them) to have seen.

PARTICIPIAL MOOD

Present Tense

(I, you, he, we, or they) seeing.

Present Perfect Tense

(I, you, he, we, or they) having seen.

EXERCISES

722. Conjugate the verbs "be," 1 "see," "love," "teach," "carry," and "row."

I. In conjugating a verb, it is not necessary to mention the subject. For example, in conjugating be in the indicative mood and present tense, you may say, "Singular number; first person, am; second person, are or art; third person, is," etc.

723. State the mood and tense of the following verbs, and then conjugate them throughout the tense:

I came. It may stop. Art thou?

Art thou? I shall try. They You must repent. We might He should have been studying. Had I gone.

are coming. If she study. You must repent.

have gone.
They were punished.

724. Write each of the following verbs in all the forms

of the tense to which it belongs:

rain. Has

I study. They returned the book. It may rain. he brought the book? The bird is flying.

725. Write a synopsis of the following verbs, in each tense of all the moods:

Love, with I as its subject. See, with Mary as its subject. Is transferred, with the trunk as its subject. Are coming, with we as its subject.

726. Conjugate the verbs "strike," "love," and "teach," in the passive voice (718, note). The verbs" study," "row," and “sing," in the progressive form (718, note). The verb "go" interrogatively in the common form.

727.

I.

PARSING

FORMS OF PARSING.- WRITTEN PARSING

They sin who tell us Love can die. - Southey.

rifv itfv

rifv

ind

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ind

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they

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Love

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who

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a

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ORAL PARSING

Tell is an irregular, transitive, finite verb, in the active voice, indica

tive mood, and present tense.

third person and plural number.

Its subject is who, hence it is in the

WRITTEN PARSING

2. The enemy advancing, he ordered the signal to be given.

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ORAL PARSING

Advancing is a regular, intransitive, non-finite verb, in the participial Its subject is enemy, but it does not change

mood, and present tense.

its form to agree with enemy in person and number.

To be given is an irregular, transitive, non-finite verb, in the passive voice, infinitive mood, and present tense. Its subject is signal, but it does not change its form to agree with signal in person and number.

EXERCISE

728. Parse the finite verbs in 603 and 651. The finite and non-finite verbs in 595 and 623.

LANGUAGE TABLES

729. Read the following tables aloud every day, until you become accustomed to hearing and using the correct forms. Add "it" when the verb is transitive.

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1. Use begin, run, etc., in the same tenses as go.

730. Read the following, without emphasizing the aux

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1. Use begin, run, etc., in the same persons and numbers as shall go.

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