EXERCISE I. State the class, mood, tense, number, and person of the verbs in the following sentences: 1. She gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 2. He was a man, take him all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 3. I thought I should have seen some Hercules. 4. If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin. 5. My son has been offered a situation in the Custom-house. 6. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than He 7. Motionless as a cloud the old man stood, 10. Thy will be done. 11. Be we bold and make despatch. 12. A little weeping would ease my heart. 13. It is on the tenth page, which see. 14. He will be here to-morrow, when please call again. 15. May there be no ill-will between us. 16. Will you permit that I stand in the pillory? 17. Be aye sticking in a tree, Jack; it'll be growing while ye're sleeping. 18. The Lord judge between thee and me. 19. Had I a daughter worthy of such a husband, he should have such a wife. 20. The wedding-guest he beat his breast, yet he cannot choose but hear. C 2 21. He doubted what were the best methods of 22. raising money in such a case. Woe worth the man That first did teach the cursed steel to bite In his own flesh. 23. I would not enter on my list of friends the man who heedlessly sets foot upon a worm. 24. She had told Tom that she should like him to put the worms on the hook for her, although she accepted his word when he assured her that worms couldn't feel. 25. Then she awoke suddenly and the dream was fled. 26. He was come now, he said, to the end of his journey. 27. Report speaks you a bonnie monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. 28. He looked a look that threatened her insult. 29. Who is there in our company to represent the queen of beauty? 30. Though the same room served us for parlour and kitchen, that only made it warmer. 31. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 32. The creation of the world had not, in my opinion, anything to do with my business. Still I feel 33. Stroke out my childish curls across his knee. 34. These rufflings will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours. 35. These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degrees and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed 36. among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled on them, so that every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Come all the world To rescue thee, so will we guard us now, &c. 37. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. 38. Publish we this peace To all our subjects. 39. Part we in friendship from your land. 44. I charge thee that thou attend me. 45. Law wills that each particular be known. 46. But see thou change no more. 47. Let 'em war, so we be conquerors. 48. And creep time ne'er so slow, Yet it shall come for me to do thee good. 49. Be it scroll, or be it book, 50. Into it, knight, thou must not look. I'll make sure for one. 51. The men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. 52. [Our destined end is] To act that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. 53. I . . . . return or e'er your pulse beat thrice. 54. He leaves town to-morrow. 55. He is leaving for India almost immediately. 56. Should I not write, you must know all is well. 57. Now tread we a measure, said young Lochinvar. 58. If 'twere done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. 59. Many acts, that had been otherwise blamable, were done by them. The exercises on strong and weak verbs (§§ 70-75) should consist of mixed lists with regard to which the pupil should be required to state their principal parts (present and past tense and passive participle), and also whether they are strong or weak, with the reason for this last statement in every case. AUXILIARY VERBS AND OTHERS SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR THEM. Auxiliary verbs are verbs used to form the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. In deciding, therefore, whether a verb is an auxiliary or not, it is necessary to decide whether it marks the time or the manner of the action of another verb, or whether it makes the subject, or thing spoken of, the doer or sufferer of the action. If it does none of these things then it is no auxiliary. It is a very safe guide to consider whether, in the case of two verbs one finite and the other in the infinitive mood, the chief meaning rests on the former or the latter; if it rests on the latter then the former is generally an auxiliary; but if an equal or greater force rests on the former on the former is generally not an auxiliary. EXERCISE II. Decide whether the finite verbs (when used with infinitives) in the following sentences are auxiliary or not, giving your reasons in each case: 1. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade: A breath unmakes them as a breath hath made. 2. You have done that you should be sorry for. 3. If he cannot conquer, he may properly retreat. 4. Let me die the death of the righteous. 5. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. 6. Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour. 7. Who would be free, himself must strike the blow. 8. They apprehended that he might have been carried off by gipsies. 9. I do entreat that we may sup together. 10. You would be taught your duty, I suppose. II. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman ? 12. Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus ? 13. I am about to return to town. 14. I am so deeply smitten through the helm, That without help I may not last till morn. 15. She was as fair as fair might be. 16. Thou shalt not steal. 17. If thou wilt, thou mayest make me clean. I will; be cleansed. 18. Thou shalt do no murder. 19. If you mark him you shall offend him. |