Or was it because some heavy German critic, who knew nothing beyond a verb in mi, presumed to grunt at these venerable heroes?

Once, in a game of Twenty Questions, this was the question set to guess: Who first used the prehistoric root expressing a verb of action?

" Three boys, at all events, did very little work that evening, for it was impossible to concentrate one's mind on Caesar or on French verbs with such an adventure looming in the near future.

"Participles have the same government as the verbs from which they are derived."Ib., Rule xiv.

The verb to hent, to lay hold of, is not so rare.

Ben Jonson, in his "Sad Shepherd," converts the verb into a substantive, "withouten blin.

'Then he has formed new verbs by the process of cutting off their natural tails, the adverbs, and affixing them to their foreheads.

I question whether Mr. Tooke was himself in possession of his pretended nostrum, and whether, after trying hard at a definition of the verb as a distinct part of speech, as a terrier-dog mumbles a hedge-hog, he did not find it too much for him, and leave it to its fate.

The employment of the verb for the substantive in the present instance is an evidence of the antiquity of this play.

Thus, "a man strikes" is dak klaftas, but in the past tense, dakny klaftas, the verb without the suffix being unpronounceable.

As the conjunction than never governs the objective case, it seems necessary to suppose an ellipsis of some verb after the noun which follows it as above; and possibly the foregoing solution, uncouth as it seems, may, for the English idiom, be the true one: as, "My Father is greater than I."John, xiv, 28.

On these he rings what changes he may, by putting the verb before its nominative or vocative case.

a pronoun follows two words, having a neuter verb between them, and both referring to the same thing, it may represent either of them, but not often with the same meaning: as, 1.

What a pitch of glory for the dunce who had been shamed into learning Greek verbs at Harrow!

Not once or twice, but a hundred times during my cruising about in Belgium and Germany and France, I laboriously unloaded a string of crippled German nouns and broken-legged adjectives and unsocketed verbs on a hickory-looking sentry, only to have him reply to me in my own tongue.

Yet it is not very obvious, that "he" and "she" are here verbs under this definition.

"By examining carefully the conjugation of the verb through this mood, you will find it very easy."Ib., p. 147.

Let it also be noticed, that for these same verbs within these limits, there are yet other forms, of a complex kind; as, "You do dwell," or, "You are dwelling;" used in lieu of, "Thou dost dwell," or, "Thou art dwelling:" so, "You did plan," or, "You were planning;" used in lieu of, "Thou didst plan," or, "Thou wast planning."

Murray appears to have thought the singular verb wrong; for, among his examples for parsing, he has, "Fair and softly go far," which instance is no more entitled to a plural verb than the rest.