Graded Lessons in English Part 41

I will drown, n.o.body shall help me.

I will be obliged to you, if you shall attend to it.

We will have gone by to-morrow morning.

You shall disappoint your father, if you do not return.

I do not think I will like the change.

Next Tuesday shall be your birthday.

You shall be late, if you do not hurry.

LESSON 96.

ERRORS IN THE FORM OF THE VERB.

CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.

+Model+.--Those things _have_ not _came to-day_.

Wrong, because the past _came_ is here used for the past participle _come_.

The present perfect tense is formed by prefixing _have_ to the _past participle_.

I done all my work before breakfast.

I come in a little late yesterday.

He has went to my desk without permission.

That stupid fellow set down on my new hat.

_Set_ is generally transitive, and _sit_ is intransitive. _Lay_ is transitive, and _lie_ is intransitive.

He sat the chair in the corner.

Sit that plate on the table, and let it set.

I have set in this position a long time.

That child will not lay still or set still a minute.

I laid down under the tree, and enjoyed the scenery.

Lie that stick on the table, and let it lay.

Those boys were drove out of the fort three times.

I have rode through the park.

I done what I could.

He has not spoke to-day.

The leaves have fell from the trees.

This sentence is wrote badly.

He throwed his pen down, and said that the point was broke.

He teached me grammar.

I seen him when he done it.

My hat was took off my head, and throwed out of the window.

The bird has flew into that tall tree.

I was chose leader.

I have began to do better. I begun this morning.

My breakfast was ate in a hurry.

Your dress sets well.

That foolish old hen is setting on a wooden egg.

He has tore it up and throwed it away.

William has took my knife, and I am afraid he has stole it.

This should be well shook.

I begun to sing, before I knowed what I was doing.

We drunk from a pure spring.

I thought you had forsook us.

His pencil is nearly wore up.

He come, and tell me all he knowed about it.

LESSON 97.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

+To the Teacher+.--See "Scheme," p. 187.

How many modifications have verbs? Ans.--_Five; viz., voice, mode, tense, number, and person_. Define voice. How many voices are there? Define each.

Ill.u.s.trate. What is mode? How many modes are there? Define each. What is an infinitive? What is a participle? How many different kinds of participles are there? Define each. Ill.u.s.trate. What is tense? How many tenses are there? Define each. Ill.u.s.trate. What are the number and the person of a verb? Ill.u.s.trate. What is conjugation? What is synopsis? What are auxiliaries? Name the auxiliaries. What are the princ.i.p.al parts of a verb?

Why are they so called? How does a verb agree with its subject? When a verb has two or more subjects, how does it agree? Ill.u.s.trate the uses of _shall_ and _will_.

+To the Teacher+.--Select some of the preceding exercises, and require the pupils to write the parsing of all the verbs. See Lessons 34, 35, 48, 49, and 56.

+Model for Written Parsing--Verbs+.--_The Yankee, selling his farm, wanders away to seek new lands_.

CLa.s.sIFICATION. MODIFICATIONS. SYNTAX.

_Verbs_. _Kind_. _Voice_. _Mode_. _Tense_. _Num_. _Per_.

*selling Pr. Par., Ir., Tr. Ac. --- --- --- --- Mod. of _Yankee_.

wanders Reg., Int. --- Ind. Pres. Sing. 3d. Pred. of "

*seek Inf, Ir., Tt, Ac. --- " --- --- Prin. word in phrase Mod. of _wanders_.

[Footnote *: Participles and Infinitives have no _person_ or _number_.]

LESSON 98.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

Participles sometimes partake of the nature of the noun, while they retain the nature of the verb.

Build each of the following phrases into a sentence, and explain the nature of the participle.

+Model+.-- ----_in building a snow fort_. They were engaged _in building a snow fort_. The participle _building_, like a noun, follows the preposition _in_, as the princ.i.p.al word in the phrase; and, like a verb, it takes the object complement _fort_.