Chapter VI: Verbs

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.

LESSON I.--PRETERITS.

"In speaking on a matter which _touched_ their hearts."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "Though Horace _published_ it some time after."--_Id._ "The best subjects with which the Greek models _furnished_ him."--_Id._ "Since he _attached_ no thought to it."--_Id._ "By what slow steps the Greek alphabet _reached_ its perfection."--_Id._ "Because Goethe _wished_ to erect an affectionate memorial."--_Id._ "But the Saxon forms soon _dropped_ away."--_Id._ "It speaks of all the towns that _perished_ in the age of Philip."--_Id._ "This _enriched_ the written language with new words."--_Id._ "He merely _furnished_ his friend with matter for laughter."--_Id._ "A cloud arose, and _stopped_ the light."--_Swift cor._ "She _slipped_ spadillo in her breast."--_Id._ "I _guessed_ the hand."--_Id._ "The tyrant _stripped_ me to the skin; My skin he _flayed_, my hair he _cropped_; At head and foot my body _lopped_."--_Id._ "I see the greatest owls in you, That ever _screeched_ or ever flew."--_Id._ "I _sat_ with delight, From morning till night."--_Id._ "Dick nimbly _skipped_ the gutter."--_Id._ "In at the pantry door this morn I _slipped_."--_Id._" Nobody living ever _touched_ me, but you."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Present_, I ship; _Preterit_, I shipped; _Perf. Participle_, shipped."--_A. Murray cor._ "Then the king arose, and _tore_ his garments."--_Bible cor._ "When he _lifted_ up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next."--_Bunyan cor._ "He _lifted_ up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time."--_Bible cor._ "Upon this chaos _rode_ the distressed ark."--_Burnet cor._ "On whose foolish honesty, my practices _rode_ easy."--_Shakspeare cor._ "That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which _rose_ immediately out of chaos."--_Burnet cor._ "Sir, how _came_ it, you have _helped_ to make this rescue?"--_Shak. cor._ "He _swore_ he _would_ rather lose all his father's images, than that table."--_Peacham cor._ "When our language _dropped_ its ancient terminations."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "When themselves they _vilified_."--_Milton cor._ "But I _chose_ rather to do thus."--_Barclay cor._ "When he _pleaded_ (or _pled_) against the parsons."--_Hist. cor._ "And he that saw it, _bore_ record." Or: "And he that saw it, _bare_ record."--_John_, xix, 35. "An irregular verb has one more variation; as, drive, drivest, [_driveth_,] drives, drove, _drovest_, driving, driven."--_Matt. Harrison cor._ "Beside that village, Hannibal _pitched_ his camp."--_W. Walker cor._ "He _fetched_ it from Tmolus."--_Id._ "He _supped_ with his morning-gown on."--_Id._ "There _stamped_ her sacred name."--_Barlow cor._

"_Fix'd_[530] on the view the great discoverer stood;
And thus _address'd_ the messenger of good."--_Barlow cor._

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Three freemen _were on trial_"--or, "_were receiving their trial_--at the date of our last information."--_Editor cor._ "While the house _was building_, many of the tribe arrived."--_Cox cor._ "But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church _is built_--(or, _continues to be built_--) upon it."--_The Friend cor._ "And one fourth of the people are _receiving education_."--_E. I. Mag. cor._ "The present [_tense_,] or that [_form of the verb_] which [_expresses what_] is now _doing_."--_Beck cor._ "A new church, called the Pantheon, is _about_ being completed, in an expensive style."--_Thompson cor._ "When I last saw him, he _had_ grown considerably."--_Murray cor._ "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I _have_ got into."--_Duncan cor._ "You _might_ as _well_ preach ease to one on the rack."--_Locke cor._ "Thou hast heard me, and _hast_ become my salvation."--_Bible cor._ "While the Elementary Spelling-Book _was preparing_ (or, _was in progress of preparation_) for the press."--_Cobb cor._ "Language _has_ become, in modern times, more correct."--_Jamieson cor._ "If the plan _has_ been executed in any measure answerable to the author's wishes."--_Robbins cor._ "The vial of wrath is still _pouring_ out on the seat of the beast."--_Christian Ex. cor._ "Christianity _had_ become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire."--_Gurney cor._ "Who wrote before the first century _had_ elapsed."--_Id._ "The original and analogical form _has_ grown quite obsolete."--_Lowth cor._ "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, _have_ perished."--_Murray cor._ "The poems _had_ got abroad, and _were_ in a great many hands."--_Waller cor._ "It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'The bubble _is ready to burst._'"--_Cobbett cor._ "I _drove_ my suitor from his mad humour of love."--_Shak. cor._ "Se viriliter expedivit."--_Cic._ "He _has played_ the man."--_Walker cor._ "Wilt thou kill me, as thou _didst_ the Egyptian yesterday?"--_Bible cor._ "And we, _methought_, [or _thought I_] looked up to him from our hill"--_Cowley cor._ "I fear thou _dost_ not think _so_ much of _the_ best things as thou _ought_."--_Memoir cor._ "When this work was commenced."--_Wright cor._ "Exercises and _a_ Key to this work are _about_ being prepared."--_Id._ "James is loved by John."--_Id._ "Or that which is exhibited."--_Id._ "He was smitten."--_Id._ "In the passive _voice_ we say, 'I am loved.'"--_Id._ "Subjunctive Mood: If I _be_ smitten, If thou _be_ smitten, If he _be_ smitten."--_Id._ "I _shall_ not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is."--_Chalmers cor._ "I said to myself, I _shall_ be obliged to expose the folly."--_Chazotte cor._ "When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "That the fact has been done, _is doing_, or will be done."--_Peirce cor._ "Am I _to be_ instructed?"--_Wright cor._ "I _choose_ him."--_Id._ "John, who _respected_ his father, was obedient to his commands."--_Barrett cor._

"The region _echoes_ to the clash of arms."--_Beattie cor._

"And _sitst_ on high, and mak'st creation's top
Thy footstool; and _beholdst_ below thee--all."--_Pollok cor._

"And see if thou _canst_ punish sin and let
Mankind go free. Thou _failst_--be not surprised."--_Idem._

LESSON III--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"What follows, _might better have been_ wanting altogether."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "This member of the sentence _might_ much better have been omitted altogether."--_Id._ "One or _the_ other of them, therefore, _might_ better have been omitted."--_Id._ "The whole of this last member of the sentence _might_ better have been dropped."--_Id._ "In this case, they _might_ much better be omitted."--_Id._ "He _might_ better have said 'the _productions_.'"--_Id._ "The Greeks _ascribed_ the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."--_Id._ "It _was_ noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I _determined_ to send him."--_Bible cor._ "I _would_ rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."--_Id._ "As for such, I wish the Lord _would open_ their eyes." Or, better: "_May_ the Lord _open_ (or, I _pray_ the Lord _to_ open) their eyes."--_Barclay cor._ "It would _have_ made our _passage_ over the river very difficult."--_Walley cor._ "We should not _have_ been able to _carry_ our great guns."--_Id._ "Others would _have_ questioned our prudence, if _we_ had."--_Id._ "Beware thou _be_ not BECÆSARED; i.e., Beware that thou _do_ not dwindle--or, _lest thou dwindle_--into a mere Cæsar."--_Harris cor._ "Thou _raisedst_ (or, familiarly, thou _raised_) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."--_Arbuthnot cor._ "Life _hurries_ off apace; thine is almost _gone_ already."--_Collier cor._ "'How unfortunate has this accident made me!' _cries_ such a one."--_Id._ "The muse that soft and sickly _woos_ the ear."--_Pollok cor._ "A man _might_ better relate himself to a statue."--_Bacon cor._ "I heard thee say but now, thou _liked_ not that."--_Shak. cor._ "In my whole course of wooing, thou _criedst_, (or, familiarly, thou _cried_,) _Indeed!_"--_Id._ "But our ears _have_ grown familiar with '_I have wrote_, '_I have drank_,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."--_Lowth et al. cor._ "The court was _in session_ before Sir Roger came"--_Addison cor._ "She _needs_--(or, if you please, _need_,--) be no more with the jaundice _possessed_"--_Swift cor._ "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day _when_ you _were_ here."--_Id._ "If spirit of other sort, So minded, _hath_ (or _has_) o'erleaped these earthy bounds."--_Milton cor._ "It _would_ have been more rational to have _forborne_ this."--_Barclay cor._ "A student is not master of it till he _has_ seen all these."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "The said justice shall _summon_ the party."--_Brevard cor._ "Now what _has_ become of thy former wit and humour?"--_Spect. cor._ "Young stranger, whither _wanderst_ thou?"--_Burns cor._ "SUBJ. _Pres._ If I love, If thou _love_, If he love. _Imp._ If I loved, If thou _loved_, If he loved."--_Merchant cor._ "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou _do_ not love, If he _do_ not love."--_Id._ "If he _has_ committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."--_Bible cor._ "Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to call_, second person singular: If thou _call_, (rarely, If thou _do call_,) If thou _called_."--_Hiley cor._ "Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to love_, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou _loved_."--_Bullions cor._ "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."--_White cor._ "I taught, thou _taughtest_, (familiarly, thou _taught_,) he taught."-- _Coar cor._ "We say, '_If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,' 'Unless it rain._' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."--_Weld cor._ "He _has_ arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."--_Priestley cor._ "He _might_ much better have let it alone."--_Tooke cor._ "He were better without it. Or: He _would be better_ without it."--_Locke cor._ "_Hadst_ thou not been by. Or: _If_ thou _hadst_ not been by. Or, in the familiar style: _Had_ not thou been by,"--_Shak. cor._ "I learned geography. Thou _learned arithmetic_. He learned grammar."--_Fuller cor._ "Till the sound _has_ ceased."--_Sheridan cor._ "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, _died_."--_Six English Grammars corrected_.

"Thou _bow'dst_ thy glorious head to none, _fear'dst_ none." Or:--
"Thou _bowed_ thy glorious head to none, _feared_ none."
--_Pollok cor._

"Thou _lookst_ upon thy boy as though thou _guess'd_ it."
--_Knowles cor._

"As once thou _slept_, while she to life was formed."
--_Milton cor._

"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was _killed?_"
--_Shak. cor._

"Which might have well _become_ the best of men."
--_Idem cor._