Stand, food; hang, hung, and hang'd; but lead has led, Read, Read; Spread, spread; bleed, bled; and breed While Feed and Speed have Roots in fed and fped. Digged and dug, as Roots from dig are found. So cling, ring, fing, fling, Spring, fting, firing, fwing, wring, Have Roots in tang, and ung; began, begun Come from begin So fpin has +Span and Spun; Second Second Sort of the fecond Clafs of irregular Verbs, in which the fecond and third Roots are derived from the fitft, by changing the final d into t. Thefe Verbs are five in Number. Build, built, built Lend, lent, lent Rend, rent, rent Send, fent, fent Build, lend, rend, fend, and spend, their final d Third Sort of the fecond Clafs, in which the intermediate Vowels are changed; or, if not changed into others, are altered in Sound, and the Letter d or t is likewife added; or in which fome Confonants in the final Syllable are changed to á d. The Verbs of this Sort are Twenty-one in Number. Make, made; have, had ; pay, paid; say, faid ; leave, left; Dream, dreamt; mean, meant; reave and bereave have 2 reft. Tell, told; fell, fold; deal forms its Roots in dealt; The fourth Sort of the fecond Clafs, in which the fecond and third Roots are both formed from the first by aght, the u being the latter Vowel of a Diphthong. The Verbs of this Sort are Eight in Number. -eached, -eached, F-ight, f-ought, f-ought. Teach-t -aught, -aught Bef-eech, bef-ought, bef ought S-eek, fought, fought Br-ing, br-ought, br-ought Th-ink, th-ought, th-ought -orked, Work w -rought, B-uy, b-ought, b-ought -orked, W -rought Teach, taught; befeech, befeeched, and besought ; And think has thought, and work has work'd and THE THIRD CLASS of irregular Verbs, in which the third or Perfect Root is derived from the second or Indefinite Root. The Verbs of this Clafs are Twenty-fivs in Number. L-ay, |