1. Give the past and past participle of teach, sing, write, read, hurt, arise, take, beat, tell, &c., &c. 2. Give the present and past for the following past participles:—Throw sworn, swum, built, spoken, stolen, &c., &c. 3. Correct the following examples, and give the number and person each: The blossoms have fell from the trees. Mary come to school in hast Sarah's exercise is wrote badly. The thief stoled the money and telek a falsehood about it. The lake is froze hard. Charles has took th wrong course. The bell ringed loud. The soldiers fit bravely. S did not git the premium. The exercise is wrote badly. James has spoke the truth. A sad misfortune has befell him. The carriage drawed by four horses. Being weary I laid down and ris much freshed. The ball was throwed too high. I see the soldiers when t come. The wind has blowed the fruit from the trees, and broke branches. He sit down upon the bank. The cattle were drove to ture. After he had strove many times he winned the prize. The stinged Nellie badly. Edwin has took my knife. The sky has were cloudy aspect for several days. She singed the song well. The ca have ran off the track. Grandmother has weaved the cloth beautifu Who teached him grammar? These apples have growed very fast. clinged to the mast. He give me some money. Anna stringed beads quickly. The vessel has hove in sight. She springed a lea The stone smit him in the face. The river has overflown its banks. seen Harry when he done it. 129. Defective Verbs. 1. Defective verbs are those in which some of the princi parts are wanting. Defective verbs. . They are may, can, shall, and will, which have the past e, but no participles; must, and ought, which have neither a tense nor participles; quoth, which has neither a present e nor participles. When must refers to past time, it is used in the present perfect e; as, "He must have left." When ought refers to past time, it is 46 wed by the perfect infinitive; as, He ought to have written." Quoth is now seldom used. Beware (be ware or wary) is used mostly he imperative mode; as, "Beware of dogs." 130. Impersonal Verbs. 1. An impersonal verb is one by which an action or state is erted independently of any particular subject; as, "It rains." t snows." 1. Methinks, methought, meseems, meseemed, may be regarded as imperal, or rather unipersonal verbs. They are equivalent to I think, I ught, It seems, it seemed to me. 131. Exercise. 1. Study the following models for parsing the verb :(Full form.) (1.) Give the part of speech, and tell why (2.) Tell whether it is regular or irregular, and why. (4.) Tell whether it is transitive or intransitive, and why. (5.) (6.) (7.) 66 66 66 the voice and form, and why mode, and why. tense, and why. (8.) Inflect the tense. (9.) Tell the number and person, and why. (10.) Give the rule. (Abbreviated form.) (1.) It is a regular or irregular, transitive or intransitive verb, (if ansitive) active or passive form. (2.) Principal parts. (3.) Mode. (4.) Tense. (5.) Number and person. (6.) Construction and rule. Must and ought denoting past time. Quoth. Impersonal verbs. Models for parsing. EXAMPLES. 2. "Sarah has written a letter." Has written... is a verb (why?); principal parts (pres. write, past wrot past part. written); transitive (why?); active voice (why? common form (why?); indicative mode (why?); prese perfect tense; it is formed by prefixing have, which bo denotes present time and is the sign of completion, the past participle written, which denotes completion (I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we he written, you have written, they have written); third perso singular number, to agree with its subject Sarah, accor ing to Rule IV.: "The verb must agree with its subje in number and person." Can play. . . . . is a verb (why?); regular (why?); principal parts intransitive (why?); common form (why?); potenti mode (why?); present tense (why?); (analyze and infle it) third person, singular number (why?). Rule IV. 4. "America was discovered by Columbus." Was discovered. is a regular transitive verb, passive voice—or simply regular passive verb—the subject is represented as acte upon; (discover, discovered, discovered,) indicative mo (why?); past tense (why ?); (analyze (114, 3) and inflec it), third person, singular number, and agrees with it subject, America, according to Rule IV. 5. "I love to see the sun shine." is an irregular transitive verb, active voice, &c., infiniti is an irregular intransitive verb (shine, shone, shone) 6. "If they were reading the book." Were reading.. is an irregular transitive verb, active voice, progressive forn (why?) subjunctive mode (why?), &c. 7. "Has he come ?" Has come is an irregular intransitive verb, common form (conjugated interrogatively), &c. Models for parsing. Add an object, and change the following transitive verbs from the active he passive voice: Iary loved. They read. Henry lost. threw. Anna found. He rowed. e broke. Give. Will you lend? e truth was loved by Mary. The children played. Augus Hear. The father punished. Thus Mary loved the truth = · Change the following transitive verbs from the passive to the active form, - supply a subject when it is omitted :— America was discovered in 1492. Religious liberty was established Rhode Island. The Magna Charta was granted to the English. The xicans were defeated at Buena Vista. The king was concealed in - tree. The retreat of the Greeks was conducted very skilfully. A eat battle was fought at Marathon. The gunpowder plot was discored. King Charles was restored to the throne in 1660. Paradise st was written by Milton. The Messiah was written by a distinished poet. Thus: Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. 10. Parse the VERBS in the following examples; also the NOUNS, ADJECVES, PRONOUNS and PARTICIPLES: In August, even, not a breeze can stir but it thrills us with the breath autumn. A pensive glory is seen in the far, golden gleams, among e shadows of the trees.-Hawthorne. Reproach did not spare Braddock, even in his grave. Still his dauntss conduct on the field of battle shows him to have been a man of arless spirit; and he was universally allowed to be an accomplished sciplinarian. Whatever may have been his faults and errors, he expied them by the hardest lot that can befall a brave soldier, ambitious ' renown-an unhonored grave in a strange land; a memory clouded 7 misfortune, and a name for ever coupled with defeat.-Irving. Now, by the skies above us, and by our fathers' graves, Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Models for parsing. |