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Future Tenfe.

77. Sing. I fhall or will be, thou fhalt or wilt be, he fhall or will be. Plu. We fhall or will be, ye fhall or will be, &c.

Second Future.

78. Sing. I fhall or will have been,

c.

IMPERATIVE MODE.

79. Sing. Be, do thou be, or be thou. Plu. Be, do ye be, or be ye.

POTENTIAL MODE.

Prefent Tenfe.

80. Sing. I muft, may, can, would, could, or thould be; thou muft, mayeft, canft, wouldeft, couldeft, or fhouldeft be; he, &c. Plu. We muft, may, can, would, could, or fhould be; ye, &c. E 2

Perfect

Perfect and Pluperfect Tenfes.

81. Sing. I muft, might, would, could, or fhould have been; thou muft, mightest, wouldeft, couldest, or shouldest have been; he muft, might, would, could, or fhould have been. Plu. We muft, might, would, could, or fhould have been; ye, &c. .

82. The future Tenfe, in this Mode, is best expreffed by the prefent: as, I

may

be to-morrow.

83. The fubjunctive Form of this Verb is thus diftinguished:

Prefent Tenfe.

Sing. Though I be, though thou be, though he be. Plu. Though we be, though ye be, though they be.

Imperfect Tenfe.

Sing. Though I were, though thou wert, though he were. Plu. Though we were, though ye were, though they INFINITIVE

were.

INFINITIVE MODE.

84. Prefent, to be; Perfect, to have been; Future, about to be.

85. The Declenfion of a Paffive Verb is formed by adding the Participle Paffive to each Perfon of the preceding Verb, to be: as, Prefent Tenfe, Sing. I am loved, thou art loved, or you are loved, he is loved. Plu. We are loved, ye or you are loved, they are loved, &c. &c.

86. The Verb has two original Tenfes, the Prefent, and the Paft; and two Participles, the one Active, and the other Paffive.

87. The active Participle of all Verbs whatever ends in ing: as, loving,` teaching.

88. The paffive Participle and past Tenfe of all regular Verbs are exactly the fame: as, love, loved; ask, asked. 89. All

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89. All regular Verbs, ending with an e, form their past Tense and paffive Participle by the Addition of d only: as, love, loved; receive, received. And all Verbs, whether regular or irregular, which end with an e, omit that e in the active Participle: as, love, loving; give, giving.

90. All regular Verbs, ending with a Confonant, or with a double Confonant, form their past Tenfe and paffive Participle by adding ed to the primitive Word: as, remain, remained; long, longed. And the active Participle of all fuch Verbs is formed by the Addition of ing as, remain, remaining; long, longing.

91. Such Verbs, however, as end in ck, ff, p, fb, fs, and x, form, in general, the past Tenfe and passive Participle in t as well as ed: as, check, checked, or checkt; puff, puffed, or puft; snap, Snapped, or Snapt; meth, mehed, or mefht; blefs, blessed, or bleft; mix, mixed, or mix: One of the Confonants being dropped when the Verb ends

with two Confonants of the fame. Kind, or, when ending with a fingle Confonant, it doubles it in the past Tense: as, blefs, bleffed, bleft; fnap, Snapped, fnapt.

92. Verbs that end in y with a Vowel before it are completely regular, and form their past Tenfe and paffive Participle by the Addition of ed: as, obey, obeyed; decoy, decoyed: Buy, Say, flay, and a few other irregular Verbs, being excepted. But if there be a Confonant before the y, then the past Tenfe with the paffive Participle, and the fecond and third Perfons of the prefent Tenfe, change the y into i: as, deny, denied, thou denieft, he denieth or denies. But the active Participle of all Verbs ending in y is formed by an Addition of ing: as, obey, obeying ; buy, buying; deny, denying.

93. There are feveral Verbs, which, though regular as to their general Formation, yet double their final Confonant in the past Tense and both Par

ticiples:

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