NOTE. There are a few compound irregular verbs, such as befal, bespeak, &c. which, as they follow the simple form, it was not thought necessary to insert in this catalogue. 104. There are a few verbs ending in t, and d, which are the same in the present and preter tenses, and passive participle: as, burst, cast, cost, cut, hit, hurt, knit, let, put, read, rid, set, shed, shred, shut, slit, split, spread, thrust. OF AN ADVERB.* 105. An adverb is a part of speech, joined to a verb, an adjective, a participle, and sometimes to another adverb, to express the quality, or circumstance of it: as, he reads well; a *From ad, to, and verbum, a verb. |