 Of the Tenses. TENSE, being the distinction of time, might seem to admit only of the present, past, and future; b.ut to mark it more accurately, it is made to consist of six variations, viz. the PRESENT, the IMPERFECT, the PERFECT, the PLUPERFECT, and...  English Grammar, with an Improved Syntax - Page 52by J. M. Putnam - 1831 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1839 - 110 pages
...time, might seem to admit only of the present, past, and future ; but to mark it mere accurately, it is made to consist of six variations, viz. the Present,...Perfect the Pluperfect, and the First and Second Future Tenses. The Present Tense represents an action or event, as passing at the Un<e in which it is. mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1839 - 242 pages
...defective) may bo employed in the same manner. II. OF THE TENSES. TENSE means time. Verbs have six tenses, the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, and the First and Second Future tenses. The PRESENT TENSE represents an action or event as taking place at the time in which it is... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1840 - 204 pages
...steam-boat starts." 494. Tense is the distinction of time, and admits of six variations," namely — the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first and second future tenses. XL. OF PARTICIPLES. 495. In the phrase, " I found a man laboring in the field/' the word labor... | |
 | Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pages
...time, might seem to admit only of the present, past, and future ; but to mark it more accurately, it is made to consist of six variations, viz. the PRESENT,...PERFECT, the PLUPERFECT, and the FIRST and SECOND FUTURE TENSES. The Present Tense represents an action or event, as passing at the time in which it is mentioned... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1841 - 202 pages
...steam-boat starts." 494. Tense is the distinction of time, and admits of six variations, namely — »the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first and second future tenses. XL. OF PARTICIPLES. 495. In the phrase, " I found a man laboring in the field," the word fobor... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...honoured ; but with the help of the auxiliaries, these are made to consist of six tenses : namely, the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first and second future lenses. (2) The Auxiliary, or helping, Verbs, by whicli all other verbs are conjugated, are themselves... | |
 | Gerald Murray - English language - 1847 - 278 pages
...time, might seem to admit only of the present, past, and future; but to mark it more accurately, it is made to consist of six variations, viz., the present,...perfect, the pluperfect, and the first and second future tenses." The only part of the above attempt to define tense, that has any resemblance to a definition,... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1849 - 262 pages
...three genders ; the masculine ; the feminine, and the neuter." False Punctuation. There are six tenses the present the imperfect the perfect the pluperfect and the first and second future. COLON. § 276. The colon divides those parts of a compound sentence less closely connected than such... | |
 | Henry St. John Bullen - 1853 - 318 pages
...the time in which an action takes place. There are six Tenses, or Times, belonging to English Verbs; the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, and the first and second Futures. Note. — The principle upon which the tenses of verbs are arranged, may be explained on the... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1854 - 260 pages
...three genders ; the masculine ; the feminine, and the neuter." False Punctuation. There are six tenses the present the imperfect the perfect the pluperfect and the first and second future. COLON. § 276. The colon divides those parts of a compound sentence less closely connected than such... | |
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