Prior-Future Tense.

I shall n have been loving Thou shalt or wilt n have been loving

You shall or will n have been loving

He shall or will n have been loving

We shall n have been loving (Ye shall or will n have been

loving

You shall or will n have been loving

They shall or will n have been loving

In the same way with all the auxiliaries of this tense.

:

In the same way with the other auxiliaries of this tense.

SUBJUNCTIVE MODE.

Conjugate this verb through the common form of the subjunc

tive as directed on page 46.

IMPERATIVE MODE.

This form is seldom used in the imperative.

Exercises.

He is loving. Thou art loving. I am loving. You are loving. We were loving. You was loving. They were loving. Thou hadst been loving. She had been loving. We had been loving.

It will be loving. They shall be loving.

You will have been loving, They shall have been loving.

Thou wilt have been loving.

shouldst be loving. I would be They can have been loving. You should have been loving. foregoing examples, as in the

We may be loving. Thou loving. He could be loving. We might have been loving. Parse the verb in each of the model previously given.

NOTE. It will be perceived that this form of the verb is parsed in the same way in which the other form is parsed. The present participle in this form, has no better claim to be parsed, as a participle, separate from its auxiliary is, than the perfect participle has, in the passive voice; and therefore it should always be parsed as a verb.

‡ INTERROGATIVE FORM WITH THE AUXILIARY

Have you n been loving?

(Have ye n been loving?
(Have you n been loving?

Has or hath he n been loving? Have they n been loving?

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Shall I n be loving?
Shalt

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Had we n been loving?
Had ye n been loving?
Had

you n been loving?

Had they n loving?

Tense.

Shall we n be loving?

or wilt thou n be loving? ( Shall or will ye n be loving? Shall or will you n be loving?) Shall or will you n be loving? Shall or will he n be loving? Shall or will they n be loving? PRIOR FUTURE. This form of the verb is little used in this tense.

Will, is not elegant, in the first person, in this tense.

May they n be loving?

Mayest thou n be loving?

May you n be loving?

May he n be loving?

In the same way with the auxiliaries can, must, mıgnt, could, would and should. This form is little used in this tense.

REMARK 1. The same sentence cannot be a question and command at the same time, hence there is no interrogative form in the imperative mode.

REMARK 2. The learner should observe that in interrogative sentences, the nominative follows the verb, when alone; and the first auxiliary, when one or more are used; and the sign of negation, not, (and generally never,) comes immediately after

the nominative.

Exercises.

Art thou loving? Are they loving? Am I loving? Was he loving? Were they loving? Were you loving? Have they been loving? Has he been loving? Has it been loving?

Canst thou be loving? May we be loving? Could they be loving? Should he be loving?

Parse the verb in each example, and write several questions. REMARK. The learner will perceive that in all the preceding forms of the verb love, it asserts the action of the subject or nominative; hence it is active and belongs to the active voice.

PASSIVE VOICE.

The Passive Voice is formed by adding the perfect participle of a transitive verb in the active voice to the verb be in all its inflections.

NOTE 1. In this combination the perfect participle is passive; but otherwise it is active.

NOTE 2. Action, which cannot pass over to an object, cannot be received or suffered; hence intransitive verbs cannot have a passive voice.

Display of the Active and Passive Voices.