EXERCISE I.

Mention the verbs in the following sentences, and name the tense of each:

1. We started late in the afternoon of the first day.

2. There is a land of pure delight.

3. I had now come in sight of the house.

4. A ship-of-war arrived unexpectedly in the bay.

5. The walls of this most curious and interesting fortress have probably lost much of their original height.

6. Over the sea our galleys went.

7. The moon had risen, but the breeze had dropped. 8. A cuckoo's nest is a very simple affair, but it will bear close study. — M. THOMPSON.

9. Short space he stood, then waved his hand:

Down sunk the disappearing band. - SCOTT.

10. It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. - RUSKIN.

II. Other soldiers heard the noise, and ran hastily from the barracks to assist their comrades. — HAWTHORNE.

12.

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man.-WORDSWORTH.

EXERCISE II.

Write six tense forms for each of the following verbs, to be used with the subject I:

LESSON XLVII.

PERSON AND NUMBER.

Tell how many forms of the verb hear are used with the different subjects in the following, and give the endings of the special forms:

The different forms that a verb takes to correspond to the person and the number of its subject are called person and number forms.

The second person singular has the ending est or st in both the present and past tenses of the indicative mode; as,

The third person singular has, in the present indicative, the ending s or es and the old forms eth or th; as,—

She sleeps or she sleepeth.

He does or he doth or he doeth.

The forms with thou and the forms in th or eth are now seldom used, except in prayer and in poetry.

With the exception of the verb be, the first person singular and the plural forms for all the persons have no endings to mark person or number.

The verb be has different forms for the singular and the plural in the present and past tenses of the indicative mode; as, —

Write the forms of the following verbs required for the subjects I, thou, he, and we, in the indicative present:

Tell how the past tenses of the following verbs are formed:

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART.

plant, planted, planted.

A verb that forms its past tense by adding ed or d to the present

is a regular verb; as, walk, walked; move, moved.

A verb that does not form its past tense by adding ed or d to the present is an irregular verb; as, drive, drove; give,

Some verbs have both regular and irregular forms; as, build, builded or built; kneel, kneeled or knelt.

The present tense, the past tense, and the perfect participle are called the principal parts of a verb, since all the other parts can be found when these three parts are known.

A verb that lacks any of the principal parts is called defective; as, may, shall.