1. I must, might, would, PLURAL. 1. We must, might, could, or should have been would, could, or should have been 2. Thou must, mightest, wouldest, couldest, shouldest have been 2. Ye or you must, or might, would, could, of should have been 3. He must, might, 3. They must, might, would, could, or should would, could, or should have been have been 82. The future tense, in this mode, is best expressed by the present: as, I may be to morrow. 83. The subjunctive form of this verb is thus distinguished: 84. Present, to be; perfect, to have been; future, about to be. E 85. The declension of a passive verb is form, ed by adding the participle passive to each person of the preceding verb, to be; as, PRESENT TENSE. SING. 1. I am loved 2. Thou art loved, or you are loved 3. He is loved PLURAL. 1. We are loved 2. Ye or you are loved 3. They are loved, &c. 86. The verb has two original tenses, the present and the past; and two participles, the one active, and the other passive. 87. The active participle of all verbs whaterer ends in ing; as, loving, teaching. 88. The passive participle and past tense of all regular verbs are exactly the same: as, love, loved; ask, asked. 89. All regular verbs, ending with an e, form their past tense and passive participle by the addition of d only: as, love, loved; receive, received. And all the 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 consonant, or with a double consonant, form their past tense and passive participle by adding ed to the primitive word: as, remain, remained; long, longed. And the active participle of all such verbs is formed by the addition of ing: as, remain, remaining; long, longing. 91. Such verbs, however, as end in ck, ff, P, sh, ss, and x, form, in general, the past tense and passive participle in t as well as ed: as, check, checked or checkt; puff, puffed or puft; snap, snapped, or snapt; mesh,meshed, or mesht; bless, blessed, or blest; mix, mixed, or mixt: one of the consonants being dropped when the verb ends with two consonants of the same kind; or, when ending with a single consonant, it doubles it in the past tense: as bless, blessed, blest; snap, snapped, snapt. 92. Verbs that end in y with a vowel before it, are completely regular, and form their past tense and passive participle by the addition of ed: as, obey, obeyed; decoy, decoyed: buy, say, slay, and a few other irregular verbs, being excepted. But if there be a consonant before the y, then the past tense with the passive participle, and the second and third persons of the present tense, change the y into i: as, deny, de nied, thou deniest, 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 several verbs, which, though regular as to their general formation, yet double their final consonant in the past tense and both participles: as, sup, supped, supping; worship, worshipped, worshipping. 94. There are also many verbs, irregular in their past tense and passive participle, which yet double their final consonant in the active participle: as, begin, beginning; run, running. 95. All regular verbs, which double their final consonant in the past tense and passive participle, double it also in the active participles, and the contrary; as, blot, blotted, blotting. And all verbs without exception, which double the final consonant in the active participle, double that consonant also in the second and third persons of the present tense: as, worship, wor-. shipping, thou worshippest, he worshippeth, or worships; begin, beginning, thou beginnest, he beginneth, or begins. 96. Here follows a catalogue of the simple verbs which double their final consonant in the |