alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

62 ENGLISH GRAMl\IAR.
grain.-Romulus built Home.-The sun shines . .-The winds
blow.-Tbe tree fell.-Bring your books, and prepare your
lessons.-Have you recited ?-Who read last ?-God created
the heavens and the earth.-Columbus discovered America.
2, W rito a list of nouns, or names of persons or of things, in a colbmn
011 the left ,ide of the blackboanl; write after each, a word which tells
something that ~a{'h of tbese doe8; toll wbat part of speech tbat word is,
and wby: if a verb, whether transitive or intransitive, and why.
DIVISION OF VERBS.
325. In respect of form, verbs are divided into Regular,
Irregular, and Defectice.
326. A REGULAR yerb is one that forms its past tense
(415) in the indicative active, and its past participle
(554) by adding ed to the present; as, present, act; past,
acted; past participle, acted.
N OTE,-Verbs ending in e mute, drop e before ed; 3S, love, loved, loved,
(68). Bee 494.
327. An IRREGULAR ycrb is one that does not form its
past tense in the indicative active, and its past participle,
by adding ed to the pre~cnt; as, present, write; past,
wrote; past participle, 1crittell. ,
328. A DEFE(,TIYE verb is one in which some of the
parts are wanting. To this clas~ belong chiefly, Au:riliary
and Impersonal verbs.
AUXILIARY VERBS.
329. AUXILIARY (or helping) Yerbs are those by the
help of which other verbs arc inflected. They are, do,
have, be i-shall, will i-may, call, must i-and, except
be, they are used only in the present and the past tense;
thus :~
Present. Do, have, shall, will, may, can, must.
Past. Did, had, should, woultI, might, could,
330. Be, do, and have, are also principal verbs, and, as such, beJonO' to
irregular verbs (512). Be is used as an auxiliary in all its parls (354).'"
For the inflection of auxiliaries with the principal verb, Bee 4~4, 507,
and 516.