Advanced Lessons in English (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... I was. We, you, or they were. EXERCISE. Write the forms of the following verbs required for the subjects I, thou, he, and we, in the indicative present: --draw, hear, move, speak, sing, see, stand, choose, lift, come, find, forget, know, take, stand. LESSON XXXVIII. FORMS OF VERBS. Tell how the past tenses of the following verbs are formed: --PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. plant, planted, planted. fall, fell, fallen. look, looked, looked. throw, threw, thrown. live, lived, lived. give, gave, given. A verb that forms its past tense by adding ed or d to the present is a regular verb; as, walk, walked; move, moved. A verb that does not form its past tense by adding ed or d to the present is an irregular verb; as, drive, drove; give, gave. Verbs are divided into the strong and the weak conjugations. A verb that forms its past tense by changing the vowel of the present, without adding anything to the present, is a strong verb; as, fall, fell; throw, threw. The perfect participle of all strong verbs once ended in en or n, but this suffix has now disappeared from many verbs. As the strong verbs are the oldest verbs in the language, they are said to belong to the old conjugation. A verb that forms its past tense by adding ed, d, or / to the present, or without any change, is a weak verb; as, walk, walked; move, moved; deal, dealt. As the weak verbs include all new verbs and all new forms of old verbs, they are said to belong to the new conjugation. Most weak verbs are regular, but some are irregular; as, --A few weak verbs have both regular and irregular forms; as, build, builded or built; kneel, kneeled or knelt. Some verbs have both strong and weak forms, or mixed forms; as, --The present tense, the past tense, and the perfec