INDICATIVE MODE.

Prefent Tenfe.

59. Sing. I love or do love, thou loveft or doft love, he loveth or loves, or doth or does love. Plu. We love or do love, ye or you love or do love, they love or do love.

Imperfect Tenfe.

60. Sing. I loved or did love, thou lovedft or didst love, he loved or did love. Plu. We loved or did love, ye loved or did love, they loved or did love.

Perfect Tenfe.

61. Sing. I have loved, thou haft loved, he hath or has loved. Plu. We have loved, ye have loved, they have loved.

Pluperfect Tenfe.

62. Sing. I had loved, thou hadst loved, he had loved. Plu. We had loved, ye had loved, they had loved.

Future

Future Tenfe.

63. Sing. I fhall or will love, thou fhalt or wilt love, he fhall or will love. Plu. We fhall or will love, ye fhall or will love, they fhall or will love.

64. Some Verbs in this Mode will admit of a Second Future, especially fuch as fignify the completing of any Thing: as, I fball or will have finished it to-morrow.

IMPERATIVE MODE.

65. Sing. Love, do thou love, or love thou. Plu. Love, do ye love, or love ye.

POTENTIAL MODE.

Prefent Tenfe.

66. Sing. I muft, may, can, would, could, or fhould love; thou muft,

NOTE 65. Let, commonly called a Sign of the imperative Mode, is properly a Verb in that Mode; as in the Example, let him, love, the Meaning is, permit or suffer him to love:

Let,

mayeft, canft, wouldeft, couldest, or fhouldeft love; he muft, may, can, would, could, or fhould love.

Plu.

We must, may, can, would, could, or fhould love; ye, &c.

Perfect Tenfe.

67. Sing. I must, might, would, could, or fhould have loved; thou muft, mightest, wouldeft, couldest, or fhouldeft have loved; he muft, might, would, could, or fhould have loved. Plu. We muft, might, would, could, or should have loved; ye, &c.

68. The Pluperfect Tenfe, in this Mode, is beft expreffed by the perfect: as, I might have loved her before the Time you mention.

69. The future Tenfe of moft Verbs, in this Mode, is best expreffed by the prefent: as, I may love to-morrow.

Let, therefore, seems to be a Verb of the imperative, and love of the infinitive Mode; the Sign, to, being understood, though not expreffed.

70. There

70. There is a fubjunctive or conditional Form, which drops the perfonal Terminations in certain Tenfes of this Mode: as, though thou love, though he love.

INFINITIVE MODE.

71. Prefent Tenfe, to love; Perfect, to have loved; Future, about to love.

72. When the Termination of the preter Tenfe is not formed by adding d, or ed, to the first Perfon of the present Tenfe fingular, the Verb may be called irregular; but that Irregularity being discovered, and obferved in the preter Tenfes, the Verb is declined, in all other Refpects, as the regular Verb aforegoing.

From fub, under, and jungo, to join.

THE DECLENSION OF THE NEUTER

VERB, TO BE.

INDICATIVE MODE.

Prefent Tenfe.

73. Sing. I am, thou art, he is. Plu. We are, ye or you are, they are.

Imperfect Tenfe.

74. Sing. I was, thou waft, or you were, he was. Plu. We were, ye were, they were.

Perfect Tenfe.

75. Sing. I have been,

been, he hath or has been.

thou haft

Plu. We

have been, ye have been, they have been.

Pluperfect Tenfe.

76. Sing. I had been, thou hadft been, he had been. Plu. We had been, ye had been, they had been.

Future