Present or Active. Having. Perfect or Passive. Had. Compound Perfect. Having had. The auxiliary and neuter verb To be, is conjugated as follows: 1. I am. 2. Thou art. 3. He, she, or it, is. TO BE. 1. We are. 3. Ye or you are. *The Infinitive mood is generally known by the sign to, before it. †The use of the verb was with the pronoun you, in the Indicative mood, Imperfect tense, and Singular number, instead of were, though frequent in colloquial and extemporaneous discourse, appears to be not well supported by classick writers, and must, therefore, be considered vulgar. Pres. Sing. You are----Imperf. Sing. You were. Editor. * See note (†) on page 33. If such sentences should be rigorously examined, the Imperative will appear to consist merely in the word let. 1. I may or can have been. 2. Thou mayst or canst have been. 3. He may or can have been. Singular. Plural. 1. We may or can have been. 2. Ye or you may or can have been. 3. They may or can have been. Pluperfect Tense. 1. I might, could, would, or should have been. 2. Thou mightst, couldst, wouldst, or shouldst have been. 3. He might, could,would, or should have been. Plural. 1. We might, could, would, or should have been. 2. Ye or you might, could, would, or should have been. 3. They might, could, would, or should have been Subjunctive Mood. 1. If we be. Plural. Plural. 1. If we have been. 2. If ye or you have been. Pluperfect Tense. Plural. 1. If we had been. 2. If ye or you had been. First Future Tense. 1. If I shall or will be. Plural. 1. If we shall or will be. Second Future Tense. Singular. 1. If I shall have been. Plural. 1. If we shall have been. Infinitive Mood. 1 Present Tense. To be. Perfect. To have been. Present. Being. Perfect. Been. Participles. Compound Perfect. Having been. Of the Conjugation of Regular Verbs. ACTIVE. Verbs Active are called Regular, when they form their imperfect tense of the indicative mood, and their perfect participle, by adding to the verb ed, or d only when the verb ends in e; as, A Regular Active Verb is conjugated in the following manner: Loveth is in the solemn style, loves in the familiar. The perfect tense, preceded by the words when, after, as soon as, &c. is often used to denote the relative time of a future action; as, "When I have finished my letter, I will attend to his request;" "I will attend to the business, as soon as I have finished my let. ter Singular. 1. I had loved. 2. Thou hadst loved. 3. He had loved. Singular. Pluperfect Tense. First 1. I shall or will love. 2. Thou shalt or wilt love. 3. He shall or will love. Plural. 1. We had loved. 2. Ye or you had loved. Future Tense. Plural 1. We shall or will love. 2. Ye or you shall or will love. 3. They shall or will love. Future Tense. Plural. 1. We shall have loved. Those tenses are called simple tenses, which are formed of the principal, without an auxiliary verb; as, “I love, I loved." The compound tenses are such as cannot be formed without an auxiliary verb; as, "I have loved; I had loved; I shall or will love; I may love; I may be loved; I may have been loved;" &c. These compounds are, however, to be considered as only different forms of the same verb. In the two following tenses of the Indicative Mood, we use a different form of the verb, when we mean to express energy and positiveness; and also to avoid harsh sounds in the formation of the verb. 1. We did love. 2. Ye or you did love. When a question is asked, these auxiliaries are used in the Present Tense and the Imperfect of the Indicative Mood, in the following manner : * Present Tense. Singular. Plural. 1. Do I love ? 2. Dost thou love? 3. Does he love? 1. Do we love? 2. Do ye or you love? * In the remaining Tenses of this Mood, when a question is asked, the pronoun or substantive is placed after the auxiliary; as, Have I loved? Hast thou loved? Has John loved? &c. |