So that while the regular
verbs are not increasing by desertions from the irregular, the regular
verbs are slowly gaining in number.
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LESSON 134.
FORMS OF THE VERB--CONTINUED.
CONJUGATION [Footnote: We give the conjugation of the verb in the simplest
form consistent with what is now demanded of a text-book. Much of this
scheme might well be omitted.
Those who wish to reject the Potential Mode, and who prefer a more
elaborate and technical classification of the mode and tense forms, are
referred to pages 373, 374. ]--SIMPLEST FORM.
REMARK.--English verbs have few inflections compared with those of other
languages. Some irregular verbs have seven forms--+see+, +saw+, +seeing+,
+seen+, +sees+, +seest+, +sawest+; regular verbs have six--+walk+,
+walked+, +walking+, +walks+, +walkest+, +walkedst+. As a substitute for
other inflections we prefix auxiliary verbs, and make what are called
_compound_, or _periphrastic_, forms.
+Direction+.--_Fill out the following forms, using the principal parts of
the verb walk--present +walk+; past +walked+; past participle +walked+:_--
INDICATIVE MODE.
PRESENT TENSE.
Singular. Plural.
1. (I) /Pres./, 1.
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