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subjunctive mood, as there is in allowing the particle to to have an effect in the formation of the infinitive mood.* 3d. A conjunction added to the verb, shows the manner of being, doing, or suffering, which other particles cannot show: they do not coalesce with the verb, and modify it, as conjunctions do. 4th. It may be said, "If contingency constitutes the subjunctive mood, then it is the sense of a phrase, and not a conjunction, that determines this mood." But a little reflection will show, that the contingent sense lies in the meaning and force of the conjunction, expressed or understood. See the notes and observations on the nineteenth rule of syntax.

It may be of use to the scholar, to remark, in this place, that though only the conjunction if is affixed to the verb, any other conjunction proper for the subjunctive mood, may, with equal propriety, be occasionally annexed. The instance given is sufficient to explain the subject: more would be tedious, and tend to embarrass the learner.

PASSIVE.

VERBS Passive are called regular, when they form their perfect Participle by the addition of d or ed, to the verb: Jas, from the verb "To love," is formed the passive, "I am loved, I was loved, I shall be loved," &c."

A regular passive verb is conjugated by adding the perfect participle to the auxiliary to be, through all its changes of number, person, mood, and tense, in the following manner :

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"Conjunctions have an influence on the mood of the follow

ing verb."-Dr. Beattie.

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Singular. 1. I shall or will be loved. 2. Thou shalt or wilt be loved.

Plural.

1. We shall or will be loved. 2. Ye or you shall or will be loved.

3. He shall or will be loved. 3. They shall or will be loved.

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2. Be thou loved, or do thou 2. Be ye or you loved, or do

be loved.

3. Let him be loved.

ye be loved.

3. Let them be loved.

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1. I may or can be loved. 2. Thou mayst or canst be loved.

3. He may or can be loved.

Plural.

1. We may or can be loved: 2. Ye or you may or can be loved.

3. They may or can be loved.

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* Gotten is nearly obsolete. Its compound forgotten is still

in good use.

+ Ridden is nearly obsolete.

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In the preceding list, some of the verbs will be found to be conjugated regularly, as well as irregularly; and those which admit of the regular form are marked with an R. There preference to be given to some of these, which custo judgment must determine, The Compiler has not inerted such as are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by

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