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ETYMOLOGY--VERB--CONJUGATION. 89
(Do all verbs form the past tense and the past participle by adding ed?
Let ns try. Is it right to say, "I go;" 'Yould you say, "I goed to church
yesterday 1" What would you say! What are those verbs called which
do not add ed to form the past tense and the past participle (327)? Thcn
is "go" regular or irregulur 1 Why 1)
When you say, "John loves learning," does 101'es express a prescnt, a
past, or a future act 1 When a verb expresses a present act. in what tense
is it (402) I In what tense, then, is loves? Present. Why 1
(What would you say. to express the same act as past 1-as future!
Then what tense is loved ?-willlove?)
When you say. "John loves learning," do you declare a fact simply, or
wilh any limitation? What mood declares an act simply (3~8)1 Then
what mood is loves? Indicative.
In this sentence, does the subject John act, or is acted upon' "That
voice represents the subject as acting (368)! Then what voice is 10l'es!
Is J olm representfd here as speaking, spokm to, or spoken of? What
person represents the subject as spoken of (465) 1 Then what person is
loves? Third person.
Does loves assert the act of one person, or of more than one 1 What
number asserts of one (464)? Then what number is loves? Singula~.
496. The facts ascertained by this process will stand in order, thus:
"Loves"-a verb, transitive, ,'egulO1', conjugated love, loved, loved-found in
the present indicative, active, third person Singular, and cxpresses the act
of "John." This is called l'ARSING, in which the eame order of statement
ehould he observed.
497. This may be exte~ded, by giving the reasons of each statement, as
follows:
"LoVEs"-a verb, bec~use it expresses an act of its subject (314).
transitive, because it expresses an act that passes over from the
actor-John to an object leaming (319).
regular, because its past tense and past participle end in edt
conjugated, love, loved, loved (485). .
present,-it expresses what John does now (402).
indicative,-it expresses the act simply (3'18).
octive,-it represents its subject as acting (368).
third person,-its subject is spoken of (465).
sillgular,-it asserts of only one (464).
EXERCISES, NO. I.
Intlect tbe following irregular verbs in the same mauner as the verb
"to \('ve :"-taking care to use the past participle in the compound
tenses (477).
Present.
Go
Write
Do
Give
Have
Past.
went
wrote
did
gave
had
Past P(lrticip/e.
gone
written
done
given
had