Prior-Present Tense. { I may n have been loved Thou mayest n have been loved You may n have been loved He may n have been loved We may n have been loved In the same way with the auxiliaries can, must, might, could, would and should. سم SUBJUNCTIVE MODE. Besides the common forms of this mode, there are the following ‡ Subjunctive Forms. Present Tense. Hypothetical Forms. NOTE. If I were loved, and, were I loved, imply, I am not loved; if I were not loved, and, were I not loved, imply, I am loved, A negative sentence implies an affirmation; and an affirmative sentence implies a negation, in these forms of the subjunctive. In this form, also, an affirmative sentence implies a negation, and a negative sentence implies an affirmation. If we had n been loved (If ye had n been loved If you had n been loved If they had n been loved Had we n been loved Had ye n been loved If they be n loved If I be n loved If thou be n loved If you be n loved If he be n loved This form is often used in the present tense, but it is, properly, the elliptical future. If I be loved, &c., for, if I shall or will be loved, &c.; and grammarians usually explain it as having a future signification. Thou art loved. We are loved. To be loved. You was loved. He was loved. To have been loved. They were loved. We have been loved. Thou hast been loved. It had been loved. You have been loved. They had been loved. We shall be loved. You will be loved. They will have been loved. He will have heen loved. You may be loved. She can be loved. He might be loved. We could be loved. They should be loved. We could have been loved. They would have been loved. Being loved. Been loved. Be loved. Be ye loved. Do you be loved. If I am loved. If he is loved. If we were loved. I was loved. If I had been loved. †. If thou wert loved. If I were loved. Had he been loved. Were we loved. Wert thou loved. Had I been loved. Hadst thou been loved. Were I loved. If I be loved. If thou be loved. If he be loved. If we be loved. If you be loved * The negative not is often placed after do, and contracted into don't. Parse the verb in each example after the model already given, remembering to give the voice correctly, and the reason of it; then Change the exercises from the passive, to the active voice. † INTERROGATIVE PASSIVE. The learner should conjugate the passive verb interrogatively; and, if any further assistance is needed, turn to the interrogative conjugation of be, and add the perfect participle loved; thus, am I loved? &c. NOTE 1. Usage authorizes the employment of a few intransitive verbs in the passive form; as, "We are arrived." Blackstone. "When the whole evidence has been gone through." Story. "The army, indeed, is come to fine pass." Junius. "I am come." Barber. "When Saul was come to Jerusalem." Acts ix. 26. This mode of expression is, by no means, the most elegant. Parse these, and all such expressions, with intransitive verbs, without distinction of voice, as if written, “We have arrived." NOTE 2. There is a kind of passive use of verbs, often employed at the present day, which seems to be faulty; as, "The house is being built." This expression is egregiously tautological; for it has two forms of the verb to be, in immediate succession, of nearly the same import; moreover, is built and being built, are both passive forms of the verb; hence IS BEING BUILT is a double passive. AGAIN. The passive voice is formed by adding the perfect participle of the active voice to the verb to be, but this expression is formed by adding the present participle passive, to the verb to be, and therefore it cannot be a proper passive verb. This awkward sentence does not properly express the idea intended by it; for being is equivalent to existing; hence the house is being built, is equivalent to, the house is existing built. Furthermore, built, being a perfect participle, cannot be applied to unfinished action. ONCE MORE. Conjugate the verb in this form, thus:-Inf. present, to be being built-past, to have been being built. Ind. The house is being built-the house has been being built-the house was being built-the house had been being built-the house shall be being built-the house shall have been being built. &c. This sets this expression in its true light. The correct expression is, the house is building. IRREGULAR VERBS. All verbs whose past tense and perfect participle are not formed by adding d or ed to the verb in the present, are called irregular. In the following list of irregular verbs, the obsolete and obsolescent forms of the past tense and perfect participle, are distinguished in separate columns. List of Principal Parts. Perf. Part. Past Tense Perf. Part, Present Past bounden chidden clave * To be is the root of am; to form the roots of all other verbs in the list, the learner has only to prefix the particle to to the present. † R indicates that the verbs thus marked have also regular forms in those places. Present Crow R Creep Cut Past Tense Perf. Part. Past Tense Perf. Part. crept cut Dare, venture, durst, R Dare, to challenge R crept cut Obsolete crew R Deal dealt dealt *"Hang, to take away life, is regular; as, the robber was hanged but the gown was hung up."-Bullions' Gram. In the above examples, hang is transitive; it is often, however, used intransitively; as, the hat hangs on a pin. |