used as Regular Verbs. Those written in Italics are not much used by modern writers.

OBS. 2.-A Verb often has a Preposition or other prefix placed before it; the Conjugation, however, remains the same.

Take...
Mistake,..

Overtake..

EXAMPLES. ..took..

..mistook.

..overtook...

....

...taken.
..mistaken.

..overtaken.

Rem.-The class should repeat this list in concert-prefixing to each verb one of the Personal Pronouns. For the Third Person a Noun ray be used-thus:

John does.. .....John did..

. I have written......having written. . you have trod... ..he has swept.. ...John has done.

Men sit........men sat.......men have sat..
Some hear.....some heard....some are heard.

..having trod. ... having swept. ...having done. .having sat. .having heard.

They see.......
..they saw...... .they are seen....... . being seen.

To the Transitive Verbs, Objects may be attached—thus:
We saw wood.... we sawed wood...... we have sawn wood.
Birds build nests......birds built nests ......birds have built nests.

Other variations in these concert exercises may be profitable-such as placing the words now, to-day, &c., after the Present-yesterday, &c., after the Past Tense-and heretofore, recently, &c., after the Prior Present. Thus

I begin to-day........I began yesterday.. .I have begun recently. The wind blows now..the wind blew then.... the wind has blown often.

UNIPERSONAL VERBS.

Def. 98. A Verb used only as the predicate of the Indefinite Pronoun "it," is called

Methinks is an anomalous form of the verb think.

ADVERBS.

Rem. As actions are modified by circumstances, and as qualities vary in degree, so words expressing actions, and words denoting qualities, are modified by other words, denoting time, place, degree, manner, cause, &c. Hence,

Def. 99. A word used to modify the signification of a Verb, an Adjective, or another modifier, is An Adverb.

OBS. 1.-Adverbs are of great utility in rendering the language concise and spirited. They are commonly substituted for Phrases.

"Brilliantly the glassy waters mirror back his smiles."

"Solemnly he took the earthly state."

Vainly we offer each ample oblation."

"Here sleeps he now."

OBS. 2.-An Adverb is often used as a representative for the sentence or phrase to which it belongs.

EXAMPLES "While there we visited the Prison."

"While we were at Auburn we visited the Prison."

"Since then we have been friends."

"Since that time we have been friends."

OBS. 3.-An Adverb often modifies a Phrase.

EXAMPLES-We went almost To BOSTON.

Wilkes sailed quite AROUND THE WORLD.

Engraved expressly FOR THE LADIES' GARLAND."

OBS. 4.-Adverbs may consist of Words, Phrases, and Sen

tences.

1. A Word-The very best men sometimes commit faults.

2. A Phrase "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." 3. A Sentence "They kneeled before they fought."

NOTE.-Some Sentences are properly Adverbial, when they perform the office of an Adverb-although in strict construction, they may be Principa Sentences.

There comes, methinks, amid the deaf'ning roar, a still, small voice. Equivalent-there comes, apparently, a still, small voice.