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Prefent, To have: Paft, To have had.

Participle.

Prefent, Having: Perfect [8], Had :
Paft, Having had.

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C [8] This Participle reprefents the action as complete and finished and, being fubjoined to the Auxiliary to have, conftitutes the perfect Time: I call it therefore the Perfect Participle. The fame,, fubjoined to the Auxiliary to be, constitutes the Paffive Verb; and in that ftate, or when used without the Auxiliary in a Paffive fenfe,, is called the Paffive Participle.

[9]I think it be thine indeed; for thou lieft in it." Shakefear, Hamlet. Be, in the Singular Number of this Time and

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Mode, especially in the third Perfon, is obfolete; and is become

fomewhat antiquated in the Plural.

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"I knew thou wert not flow to hear."

'Thou who of old svert fent to Ifrael's court.""

Milton.

Dryden,

Addifon.

Prior.

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Infinitive Mode.

Prefent, To be: Paft, To have been.

Participle.

Prefent, Being: Perfect, Been:
Paft, Having been.

The Verb Active is thus varied according to
Perfon, Number, Time and Mode.

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Shall we in deference to thefe great authorities allow wert to be the fame with waft, and common to the Indicative and Subjunctive Mode? or rather abide by the practice of our best antient writers; the propriety of the language, which requires, as far as may be, diftinct forms for different. Modes; and the analogy of formation in each Mode; I was, Thou waft; I were, Thou wert ? all which conspire to make sert peculiar to the Subjuntive Mode..

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[2] The other form of the First Person Plural of the Imperative, ' love we, is grown obfolete.`

[3] Note, that the Imperfect and Perfect Times are here put together. And it is to be observed, that in the Subjunctive Mode," the event being spoken of under a condition, or fuppofition, or in the form of a wish, and therefore as doubtful and contingent, the

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I could, fhould, would, Thou couldst, &c. love;

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and have loved.

Infinitive Mode.

Prefent, To love: Paft, to have loved..

Participle.

Prefent, Loving: Perfect, Loved :
Paft, Having loved.

But in difcourfe we have often occafion to speak of Time, not only as Present, Paft, and Future, at large and indeterminately; but also as fuch with some particular distinction and limitation; that is, as paffing, or finished; as imperfect, or perfect. This will beft be feen in an example of a Verb laid out and diftributed according to thefe diftinctions of Time..

Verb itself in the Prefent, and the Auxiliary both of the Prefent and Paft Imperfect Times, often carry with them somewhat of a Euture fenfe, as, "If he come to-morrow, I may speak to him :" "if he fhould, or would, come to-morrow, I might, would,, could, or should, fpeak to him." Obferve alfo, that the Auxiliaries fhould and would in the Imperfect Times are used to exprefsthe Prefent and Future as well as the Paft; as, "It is my defire, that he bould, or would, come now, or to-morrow;" as well as,. "It was my defire, that he should, or would, come yeßerday," 30 that in this Mode the precife Time of the Verb is very much determined by the nature and drift of the Sentence.

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