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1 After twenty-two years' experience announce the opening ofnew ideas Would invite inspection

2 Have received manuscript, but not had tiood, will publish

3 Dr Jones and wife occupy the front rooet employment, and destitute condition, depressed me

5 She didn't trouble to make any excuse to her husband

6 Accept thanks for lovely present Hope we ether in the near future

REDUNDANT pronOUNS--A vulgaris, but common in conversation, consists in the use of an unnecessary pronoun after the subject of a sentence Thus,

_Teacher_: Who was Benjareat American philosopher and statesman

CHAPTER V

OF VERBS

CORRECT and INCORRECT FORMS[64]--It is not enough to learn by heart the ”principal parts” of a verb; the habit of using the verb-forms are often misused:--

_Present Past Indicative Past Participle_

awake (intransitive) awoke awaked begin began begun beseech besought besought blon bid (”to order,” ”to greet”) b?de bidden or bid bid (at auction) bid bidden or bid break broke broken[65]

burst burst burst choose chose chosen come came come dive dived dived do did done drive drove driven eat ate eaten flee fled fled fly flen freeze froze frozen forget forgot forgotten get got got[66]

go went gone hang hung, hanged[67] hung, hanged[67]

lay (”to cause to lie”) laid laid lie (”to recline”) lay lain plead pleaded pleaded prove proved proved[68]

ride rode ridden rise (intransitive) rose risen raise (transitive) raised raised run ran run see saw seen set (”to put”; of the sun, set set moon, etc, ”to sink”) sit sat sat shake shook shaken shoe shod shod shoed shown speak spoke spoken slay slew slain steal stole stolen take took taken throw threw throake (transitive) aked write wrote written

In using the verbs _drink, ring, shrink, sing, sink, spring, swim,_ it seems better to confine the forms in ”a” to the preterite tense, and the for_ five _”[69]

The following foruished:--

_Present Past Participle_ alight (”to get down frohted[7] lighted[70]

”to shed light on”) light (”to settle down as lighted or lit lighted or lit a bird froht,” or ”to come upon by chance”)

[64] ”Foundations,” pp78-81, 91-93

[65] ”Broke,” as a form of the past participle, is still found in verse

[66] ”Gotten” is an old fore

[67] ”Clothes are 'hung' on the line; allows”--”Foundations,” p 79

[68] ”'Proven' is borrowed froal dialect”--”Foundations,”

p92 [69] Ibid, p 91

[70] ”'Lighted' seems preferable to 'lit'; but 'lit' is used by some writers of reputation”--Ibid, p 92

EXERCISE xxxVIII

_Change the italicized verbs in these sentences to the past tense_

1 The guests _begin_ to go home

2 I _beseech_ you to hear me

3 The wind _blows_ furiously

4 The steward _bids_ me say that supper is ready

5 Mr O _bids_ forty-two dollars for the picture

6 George _dives_ better than any other boy in the crowd

7 I _do_ it myself