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--In changing a verb from the active to the passive, what does
the object complement become? How may an intransitive verb sometimes be
made transitive? Illustrate.
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LESSON 145.
REVIEW QUESTIONS.
_Lesson_ 131.--What is Mode? Define the four modes. What is Tense? Define
the six tenses. Define the infinitive. Define the participle. Define the
classes of participles. What are the number and person of a verb?
_Lesson_ 132.--What is Conjugation? Synopsis? What are auxiliary verbs?
Name them. What are the principal parts of a verb? What are redundant and
what are defective verbs?
_Lesson_ 134.--How many inflectional forms may irregular verbs have? How
many have regular verbs? What is said of the subjunctive mode? Of _to_ with
the infinitive? How is a verb conjugated in the emphatic form?
_Lesson_ 136.--How is a verb conjugated in the progressive form? How is a
transitive verb conjugated in the passive voice? Give an example of a verb
in the progressive form with a passive meaning. What does the progressive
form denote? Can all verbs be conjugated in this form? Why? Give all the
participles of the verbs _choose_, _break_, _drive_, _read_, _lift_.
_Lesson_ 137.--How may a verb be conjugated interrogatively? Negatively?
Illustrate.


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