INDICATIVE. I teach. Teach I? I do teach. Do I teach? I am teaching. Am I teaching? I am taught. Am I taught? IMP. POTENTIAL. I may, can, or must teach. May, can, or must I teach? I may, can, or must be teaching. May, can, or must I be teaching? I may, can, or must be taught. May, can, or must I be taught? SUBJUNCTIVE. If I teach. If I do teach. If I am teaching. If I am taught. If I may teach. If I may be teaching. If I may be taught. Second Person, Singular.

INDICATIVE. Thou teachest, or you teach. Teachest thou, or teach you? Thou dost teach, or you do teach. Dost thou teach, or do you teach? Thou art teaching, or you are teaching. Art thou teaching, or are you teaching? Thou art taught, or you are taught. Art thou taught, or are you taught? IMPERATIVE. Teach thou, or teach you, or teach. Do thou teach, or do you teach, or do teach. Be thou teaching, or be you teaching, or be teaching. Do thou be teaching, or do you be teaching, or do be teaching. Be thou taught, or be you taught, or be taught. Do thou be taught, or do you be taught, or do be taught. POTENTIAL. Thou mayst teach. Mayst thou teach? Thou mayst be teaching. Mayst thou be teaching? Thou mayst be taught. Mayst thou be taught? SUBJUNCTIVE. If thou teachest, or if thou, or you teach. If thou dost teach, or if thou, or you do teach. If thou art, or you are teaching, or if thou, or you be teaching. If thou art, or you are taught, or if thou, or you be taught. If thou mayst teach, or if thou, or you may teach. If thou mayst be teaching, or if thou, or you may be teaching. If thou mayst be taught, or if thou, or you may be taught.

Third Person, Singular.

INDICATIVE. He teaches school. Teaches he school? He does teach school. Does he teach school? He is teaching school. Is he teaching school? School is taught by him. Is school taught by him? POTENTIAL. He may teach school. May he teach school? He may be teaching school. May he be teaching school? School may be taught by him. May school be taught by him? SUBJUNCTIVE. If he teaches school, or if he teach school. If he does teach school, or if he

do teach school. If he is teaching school, or if he be teaching school. If school is taught by him, or if school be taught by him. If he may, can, or must teach school. If he may, can, or must be teaching school. If school may, can, or must be taught by him.

285. To Conjugate a verb Negatively, place the negative adverb not, after the verb, or after the first auxiliary. In the Infinitive, and Participial Moods, place the negative before the verb.

INFINITIVE. Not to love. Not to be loving. Not to be loved. Not to have loved. Not to have been loving. Not to have been loved. PARTICIPIAL. Not loving. Not being loved. Not having been loved. INDICATIVE. I love not. Love I not? I do not love. Do I not love? I am not loving. Am I not loving? I am not loved. Am I not loved? IMPERATIVE. Love not thou. Do not thou love. Be not thou loving. Do thou not be loving. Love not. Do not love. POTENTIAL. I may not love. May not I love? may not be loving. May not I be loving? I may not be loved. May not I be loved? SUBJUNCTIVE. Same as the Indicative, and Potential, by prefixing a Limiting Connective.

Syntax of the Verb.

286. Fifth, the SYNTAX of the Verb.

Rules for Position of Verbs.

287. RULE I. An English Verb, which is not emphatic, must follow its subject noun.

288. RULE II. An English Verb, which is emphatic, if simple, must precede its subject noun; if compound, one of its auxiliaries must precede its subject noun.

Exception. In a poetic narration, the Verb may take any place in the sentence; as,

EXAMPLES.

1. My right there is none to dispute. No one is there to dispute my right.

2. Whom ye have taken and with wicked hands crucified and slain, him declare I unto you.

Rules for the Attributes or Properties of Verbs.

289. RULE III. When the subject noun names the actor or first primary idea, the verb must be put in the Active Voice.

290. RULE IV. When the subject noun names the receiver, the verb must be put in the Passive Voice.

291. RULE V. When the subject noun is in the nominative case, the Verb mast be limited by the Person and Number of its subject noun.

First Exception.-When the subject noun of a subject clause is in the nominative case, its verb must not be limited by Person and Number.

Second Exception.-When the subject noun of a subject clause is in the nominative case, its verb must be limited by the Person and Number of the subject noun of the clause, instead of the Person and Number of the subject clause.

Third Exception.-In the English language, although a subject noun be in the nominative, its verb, in the participial mode, must not be limited by Person and Number.

292. RULE VI. When we is used for I, and you for THOU, the Plural Number must be attributed to the verb.

293. RULE VII. When the connector, AND, joins the clauses of a compound sentence, contracted in its affirmers, the verb which is expressed must take the Plural Number, although its own subject noun may be in the Singular.

First Exception.-When a distributive adjective is joined to a subject noun, Rule VII. must not be applied to its verb. 3. Every man, woman, and child demands it.

Second Exception.-When subject nouns are used in apposition, or synonymously, Rule VII. must not be applied to the verb.

4. This poet, statesman, and general, was born in obscurity.

294. RULE VIII. When a compound sentence, whose clauses are joined by the connector, or, is contracted in its affirmers the verb expressed must be limited by the Person and Number of its own subject noun.

5. Either I, or they are to do it. do it.

Either they, or I am to

First Exception. If the second subject noun be explanatory of the first, the verb must be limited by the Person and Number of the first subject noun.

6. The Palisades, a row of sharpened stakes, defend the building. A row of sharpened stakes or palisades defends the building.

295. RULE IX. An intransitive verb, between two subject nouns, must be limited by the Person and Number of the subject noun before it, unless the sentence be transposed.

7. I am dust and ashes. These dollars are my money. My money is these dollars. Death is the wages of sin.

296. RULE X. When a collective subject noun names a group of objects as a unit or one, the Singular Number must be attributed to its verb; but, when the subject noun refers to the individuals of a group, the Plural Number must be attributed to its verb.

8. The army was defeated with great slaughter.

9. The Committee were unanimous in their opinions.

10. The jury was charged very carefully by the judge, and yet they could not agree.

297. RULE XI. When the Verb is limited by person and number, it must be used in a Limited or Finite Mode.

298. RULE XII. When the Verb is not limited by person and number, it must be used in an Unlimited or Infinite Mode.

Analysis of the Verb.

1. The son' sought to recover his lost estates3.

General Analysis. Logically, the son, etc., is a complex thought, expressed by the formula;—

Rhetorically, the son, etc., is a complex sentence, having two clauses; of which, the first clause, the son sought, is a principal independent clause, and the second clause, [himself] to recover his lost estates, is a subordinate clause, dependent in thought and in form, used as the first object of the affirmer, sought; its subject is son, understood; its affirmer, recover, related to the subject, son, by to; its first object, estate, having, as its adjuncts, his, lost.

Special Analysis. Sought, logically, is an action or second primary idea; rhetorically, it is the predicate of the subject, son; THEREFORE, grammatically, sought is a Verb. It is an irregular, transitive, simple Verb; from the Verb, to seek; its principal parts are; to seek, son sought, seeking, sought. It has the attributes, active voice, third person, singular number, indicative mode, past tense, simple form, historic. Its Forms are; Simple, the son sought (Here!); Emphatic, the son did seek; Periphrastic, Active, the son was seeking; Passive, the son was sought. Rules III., V., XI.

Grammatical Analysis or Parsing. Recover, is a regular, transitive. simple Verb; from the Verb, to recover; its principal parts are; to recover, son recovered, recovering, recovered. It has the attributes, active voice, no person, no number (Rule V.-First Exception), infinitive mode, (Rule XII.) present tense; etc.