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Perfect Tense.
Singular.

1. I may have been learning. 2. Thou mayst have been learning. 3. He may have been learning.

Plural.

1. We may have been learning. 2. You may have been learning. 3. They may have been learning.

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Pluperfect Tense.
Singnlar.

1. I might have been learning.
2. Thou mightst have been learning.
3. He might have been learning.

Plural.

1. We might have been learning.
2. You might have been learning.

3. They might have been learning.

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Singular.

Plural.

1. If we be learning.
2. If you be learning.
3. If they be learning.
1. If we do learn.
2. If you do learn.
3. If they do learn.

Imperfect Tense.

1. If I were learning. 2. Ifthouwert learning. 2. If he were learning. 1. If I did learn.

Plural.

1. If we were learning. 2. If you were learning. 3. Ifthey were learning. 1. If we did learn. 2. If you did learn. 3. If he did learn. 3. If they did learn.. The remaining tenses in this mood, are, in general, similar to the correspondent tenses in the indicative mood. See page 48.

2. If thou didst learn.

Infinitive Mood.

Present Tense, To be learning.
Perfect Tense, To have been learning.
Participles.

Present. Being learning.
Perfect. Been learning.
Compound. Having been learning.

3. OF PASSIVE VOICE.

The Perfect Participle of a transitive verb, with the verb To be prefixed to it, in any of its variations, is called a Passive verb: because it signifies the receiving of action.

The conjugation of a Passive verb is called the Passive Voice; and is as follows:

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Singular.

Plurul.

1. I have been loved. 1. We have been loved. *Both ye and you are used with each tense.

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2. Thou hast been loved 2. Ye have been loved.

3. He has been loved. 3. They have been loved He hath been loved.

Per.

Pluperfect Tense.

Singular.

Plural.

1. I had been loved. 1. We had been loved. 2. Thou hadst been 2. You had been loved. 3. They had been loved.

loved.

3. He had been loved.

First Future Tense.

Singular.

1. I shall be loved.
2. Thou wilt be loved.
3. He will be loved.

Plural.

1. We shall be loved. 2. You will be loved. 3. They will be loved.

Second Future. Tense.
Singular.

Plural.

1. I shall have been 1. We shall have been

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2. Thou wilt have been 2. You will have been

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3. He will have been 3. They will have been

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2. Thou mayst be lov- 2. You may be loved.

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3. He may be loved.

3. They may be loved.

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The signs of the Potential Mood are as follows: viz.

Present Tense,

May, mayst; can, canst :

Imperfect. Might, mightst; could, couldst :
Would, wouldst ; should, shouldst ;

Perfect. May have, mayst have ;
Can have, canst have:

Pluperfect. Might have, mightst have ;
Could have, couldst have;

Would have, wouldst have;
Should have, shouldst have.

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