Part 70 (1/2)

1 I htst be reading, 2 You ht be reading

PERFECT TENSE

_Singular_ _Plural_

1 I , 2 Thou , 3 He

PLUPERFECT TENSE

_Singular_ _Plural_

1 I , 2 Thou , 3 He

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD

PRESENT TENSE

_Singular_ _Plural_

1 If I be reading, 1 If we be reading, 2 If thou be reading, 2 If you be reading, 3 If he be reading; 3 If they be reading

IMPERFECT TENSE

_Singular_ _Plural_

1 If I were reading, 1 If ere reading, 2 If thou were reading, 2 If you were reading, 3 If he were reading; 3 If they were reading

IMPERATIVE MOOD

Sing 2 Be [thou] reading, _or_ Do thou be reading; Plur 2 Be [ye or you] reading, _or_ Do you be reading

PARTICIPLES

1 _The I reading --------- Having been reading

FAMILIAR FORM WITH 'THOU'

NOTE--In the faular of this verb, is usually and , Thou was reading, Thou hast been reading, Thou had been reading, Thou shall _or_ will be reading, Thou shall _or_ will have been reading POT Thou ht, could, would, _or_ should be reading; Thou ht, could, would, _or_ should have been reading SUBJ If thou be reading, If thou were reading IMP Be [thou,] reading, _or_ Do thou be reading

OBSERVATIONS

OBS 1--Those verbs which, in their simple form, imply continuance, do not admit the compound for_ him” This compound form seems to imply that kind of action, which is susceptible of intermissions and renewals Affections of the mind or heart are supposed to last; or, rather, actions of this kind are complete as soon as they exist Hence, _to love, to hate, to desire, to fear, to forget, to remember_, and many other such verbs, are _incapable_ of this ra_, He _was loving_,” &c

But this language, to express what the authors intend by it, is not English ”He _was loving_,” can onlyis an adjective, and susceptible of comparison Who, in colike it?

Yet some have iations, of this spurious sort See such in _Adalish Gram_, 52; _his analyt and Pract

Gram_, 92; _Chandler's New Gram_, 85 and 86; _Clark's_, 80; _Cooper's Plain and Practical_, 70; _Frazee's Improved_, 66 and 69; _S S Greene's_, 234; _Guy's_, 25; _Hallock's_, 103; _Hart's_, 88; _Hendrick's_, 38; _Lennie's_, 31; _Lowth's_, 40; _Harrison's_, 34; _Perley's_, 36; _Pinneo's Primary_, 101

OBS 2--Verbs of this fornification; as, ”The books _are now selling_”--_Allen's Gra_ down”--_Ainsworth's Dict, w_ As ”It requires no _”--_Murray's Gra_ which must always last”--_Dr Chetwood_ ”While the work of the tens of Providence _are carrying on_”--_Bp Butler_ ”A sche_ on”--_Id, analogy_, p 188 ”We are perions above us”--_Dr

Blair_ ”While these things _were transacting_ in Germany”--_Russell's Modern Europe_, Part First, Let 59 ”As he _was carrying_ to execution, he demanded to be heard”--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol i, p 163 ”To declare that the action _was doing_ or done”--_Booth's Introd_, p 28 ”It _is doing_ by thousands now”--_Abbott's Young Christian_, p 121 ”While the experi every movement”--_Ib_, p 309