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Show E'NI T G B E There is anothe ¢, - 4 might, could, or fhould have been loved, & Prejint. 'To be loved Participle. Loved mauner of ufing the altive participle, which gives it a paf five fignification as, Th chartis imprimitur "i'he brafs is forging therefore to be learned in this place O To Do 8ing. Idos thou doft ;. be doth Plur, We do s ye do; they do Furure been exemplified; fro Thisis, in my opi VERBS 1 had done e Our verbs are obferve one conjugation, fuch as ha which all deviations are to b Sing: Ido confi by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formatio of the preterite, and its participle Indeed, in the feantinefs of our conjugations, thereis fcarcely any other place for irregularity thondo The firlt irregularity, is a {light deviation from the regula form, by rapid utterance or poetical contration : the laft {yllable ed is often joined with the former by fuppreflion of ¢; as /ov' Prefent ke do for lowed; after c, ch, fb,f, k5 x, and after the confonants / ¢4 when more ftrongly pronounced, and fometimes after , z, 7 Plur. We do; ye do; they do if preceded by a fhort vowel, # is ufed in pronunciation, bu very {eldom in writing, rather than 4; as plac's, fnatch't, fifp''t The reft are as in.the Indicative Infinitive. To do; to have done Participle prefent. Doing. Participle preter. Done . Do is fometimes ufed fuperflucufly as I do love wak't, dwel't, finel't ; for plac'd, fnatch'd, fiyb'd, wak'd, dwel'd Jmel'd 5 or placed, fnatched, fifbed, waked, dwelled, finelled Thofe words which terminate in /or //, or p, make their pre 7 did lbwve terite in #, eve fimply for I Jove, or I loved ; but this is confidered as a vitiou i folem language as ereps felt dwelt fometimes after x, ¢4 is changed into#, as wex# : this is not con mode of {fpeech It is fometimes ufed emphatically ; as ftant A long vowel is often changed into a fhort one ; thus, Zeps Slept, awept, crepr, fwept; from the verbs, to Zeep, to feep, t weep, tO creep, L0 fweep Where 4 or # go before, the additional letter 7 or #, in thi 7 do lowe theé, and awhen I lowe thee not Shakefpeare Chaas is come again 1t is frequently joined with a negative 5 as I like her, but do not lowe her 5 I aifbed him fuccefs, but did not help him. "This by cuftom at leaft, appears more eafy than the other form o contratted form, coalefce into one letter with the radical4 or £ if £ were the radical, they coalefce into # 5 but if 4 were the radical, then into .4 or 7, as the one or the other letter may b exprefling the fame fenfe by a negative adverb after the verb, 7 more eafily pronounced: as read, led, fpread, fbed, fbred, bid like ber, but love ber not | hid, chid, fed, bled, bred, fped, firid, rid 5 from the verbs to read, The Imperative prohibitory is feldom applied in the {econd to lead, to fpread, to fbed, to fbread, to bid, to bide, to chide, t perfon, at leaft in profe, without the word dos as Stop him, but feed, to bleed, to breed, to fpeed, to firide, to flide; to ride. An do not hurt him 5 Praife beauty, but do not dote on it ‘ thus, cat, hurt, coft, burjt, eat, beat, fweet, fit, quit, fmit, writ Its chief ufe is in interrogative forms of {peech, in which it i bit, bity met, fbot; from the .verbs to caft, to burt, to coff, t burft, t0 eat, to beat, to fweat, to fit, L0 guit, to fmite, tO write And in like manner, lnz, fent to bite, to hit, to meet, to fboot ufed through all the perfons; as Do 7 liwe? Doft thou firik e 2 Do they rebel 2 Did I complain 2 Didft thou lowe her # Di Je die? So likewife in negative interrogations; Do I mor ye grieve ? Did fbe not die rent, girt 3 from the verbs to Zexnd, to fend, to rend, to gird The participle preterite or paffive is often formed in ez, in Do and did are thus ufed only for the prefent and fimple pre terite ftead of ¢ ; as becn, taken, given, flain, known ; from the verb to be, to rate; to give, to flay, to krnow Many words have two or more participles, as not only aritfer "There is another manner of conjugating neuter verbs, which when it is ufed, may not improperly denominate them neute bitten, eaten, beaten, bidden, ehidden, jbotten, chefen, broken5 bu likewife awrit, bit, eat, beat, bid, chid, fbot, chofe, brofke, are pro 2affives, as they are infleCted according to the paflive form by th help of the verb fubftantive #0 be ofedl Do thou ; let bim do Conjunétive ) moft all the verbs which have been adopted from other languages, follow the regular form Plyr. Let us do ; do ye; let them do k jam nun verbs, and the verbs derived from them, very frequent ; but al Imperative Sing grammatic dered as anomalies, which are indeed in our monofyllable Saxo 1 thall or will do, &e fllth El @ra excuduntur IrrEGcULA language, which-has properly bu Plur. We did 5 ye did 5 they did Preterite, &c. I have done, &c printing The Englifh verbs were divided by Ben Jonfon into fou ) conjugations, without any reafon arifing from the nature of th Prefent Preterite Sing. I did 5 #hou didft ; be did o is no fomewhat obfolete: The book is a priuting, The brafs is a forging; a being properly at, and printing and forging verbal nouns fignifying action, according t the analogy of this language "The indicative and conjunétive moods are by modern writers frequently confounded, or rather the conjunétive is whelly negle¢red, when fome convenienc of verfification does not invite its revival. It is ufed among the purer writers of former times afler if, though, ere, before, till or until, whether, except, unlefs whatfoewery whomfoever, and words of withing; as, Boubtlefs thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of usy and Ifrael acknowledge us not There is another form of Englith verbs, in which the infinitiv mood is joined to the verb b in its various inflettions, which ar Indicative gramma nion, a vitious expreffion, probably corrupted from a phrafe more pure, but no Infinitive Preterite. To have been loved g Potential Mood 7 may or can be loved, &e. I mighs, could, or fhould be loved i L mifcuoufly ufed.in the participle, from the verbs to wwrire, w 'They anfwer nearly to th bite, to eat, to beat, to hide, 1o chide, £o fboet, to chaofe, to break and many fuch like In the fame manner fowwn, fhexwn, bewn, mowun, loaden, ladern as well as fow'd, fhew'd, hew'd, mow'd, loaded, laded, from th verbs to fow, to fhew, to bew, to mow, 10 load, ot lade. reciprocal verbs in French ; a 4 am rifen, furrexi, Latin - d wwas avalked out, exieram Je me fuis levé, French Je m'étois promené Concerning thefe double participles it is difficult to give an In like manner we commonly exprefs the prefent. tenfe; as, I am going, 1 am grieving, doleo The tempeft is raging, furi She is dying, illa moritur -feldom err who remembers, that when a ver fhal h bu rul procella. I tda purfiiing an enemy, Aoffen infeqior.. So the other tenfes, as, P72 as arite, awiele, writ ite prete t from difti ipl parti ha 7 = fwwere walking, Ervyydvomey mepimdliles, I have been qualkingy I bad been qoalting, 1 fball ovawill be wwalking wwivor. W that diftin& participle is more proper and ¢legant, a { ten A 7 book |