When nouns inanimate proper are used, or objects of a non-vital character, the corresponding verb is atta.

The defective verbs are chiefly the auxiliaries and the impersonal verbs.

It is sufficient for the information of the learner, and far more consistent with learning and taste, to say, that the plural is fashionably used for the singular, by a figure of syntax; for, in all correct usage of this sort, the verb is plural, as well as the pronounDr.

14.The principal verbs that take the same case after as before them, except those which are passive, are the following: to be, to stand, to sit, to lie, to live, to grow, to become, to turn, to commence, to die, to expire, to come, to go, to range, to wander, to return, to seem, to appear, to remain, to continue, to reign.

] Our verb "to govern" is an Old French word, one of the great host of French words which became a part of the English language between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, when so much French was spoken in England.

I. A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed; as, love, loved, loving, loved.

"Then neither of these [five] verbs can be neuter.

The reader will observe, that, "never to give over" or "not to leave off," is in fact the same thing as to continue; and I have shown by the analogy of other languages, that after verbs of continuing the participle is not an object of government; though possibly it may be so, in these instances, which are somewhat different.

So, when the collective noun is an antecedent, the relative having in itself no distinction of the numbers, its verb becomes the index to the sense of all three; as, "Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that IS left.

2.Most neuter verbs of the passive form, such as, "am grown, art become, is lain, are flown, are vanished, are departed, was sat, were arrived," may now be considered errors of conjugation, or perhaps of syntax.

Were John the subject, the verb must be holds.

Of Verbs Classes of Verbs Modifications of Verbs Moods Tenses Persons and Numbers The Conjugation of Verbs I. Simple Form, Active or Neuter First Example, the verb LOVE Second Example, the verb SEE Third Example, the verb BE II.

The verb is not a sign of action, but of affirmation, and existence.

"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become a passive.

"The verb must also be of the same person that the nominative case is."Ingersoll's Gram., p. 16.

"A Verb in past time without a sign is Imperfect tense.

For example: "When the verb is a passive, the agent and object change places.

"The nominative is the actor or subject, and the active verb is the action performed by the nominative."Ib., p. 45.

3. The remaining defective verbs are only five or six questionable terms, which our grammarians know not well how else to explain; some of them being now nearly obsolete, and others never having been very proper.

"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."Lowth cor.

The verb is ientare: Afranius: fragm.

Here is another: The verb to carry is Be-moan in the Algonquin.

"] [Footnote 15: This verb is a mere conjecture by one of the editors.