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Every man must account for himself." "I have not seen either of them."

3. The demonstrative are those which precisely point out the subjects to which they relate this and that, these and those, are of this class; as, "This is true charity; that is only its image."

This elers to the nearest person or thing, and that to the more distant: as, "This man is more intelligent than that." This, indicates the latter, or last mentioned; that, the former, or first mentioned: as, "Wealth and poverty are both temptations; that tends to excite pride; this, discontent."

4. The indefinite are those which express their subjects in an indefinite or general manner. The following are of this kind: some, other, any, one, all, such, &c.

Other is declined in the following man

You will submit
They will obey us
Good humor shall prevail
We honor them
You encourage us
They commend her
Let him consider

Let us improve ourselves
Know yourselves
Let them advance
They may offend

I can forgive

He might surpass them
We could overtake him
I would be happy
Ye should repent
He may have deceived me
They may have forgotten
Thou mightst have improved
We should have considered
To see the sun is pleasant

The pupil may omit parsing the verb, until he shal! have committed to memory the definitions.

5 VERBS.

A Verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer; as, "I am, I rule, I am ruled."

A verb may generally be distinguished by its making sense with any of the personal pronouns, or the word to before it; as, I walk, he plays, they write; or, to walk, to play, to write.

Verbs are of three kinds; Active, Passive, and Neuter. They are also divided into Regular, Irregular and Defective.

A Verb Active* expresses an action, and necessarily implies an agent, and an object acted upon; as, to love; "I love Penelope."

A Verb Passive expresses a passion or a suffering, or the receiving of an action; and

* Mr. Fisk, in his Murray simplified, very properly makes a distinction between those active verbs that pass from the agent to some object, and those which are limited to the agent. The former kind he calls active-transitive; the latter kind, active-intransitive.

necessarily implies an object acted upon, and an agent by which it is acted upon; as to be loved; "Penelope is loved by me."

A Verb Neuter expresses neither action nor passion; but being, or a state of being; as, "I am, I sleep, I sit."

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Auxiliary or Helping Verbs, are those by the help of which the English verbs are principally conjugated; they are do, be, have, shall, will, may, can, with their variations; and let and must, which have no variation. To Verbs belong Number, Person, Mood, and Tense.

NUMBER AND PERSON.

Verbs have two numbers, the Singular and the Plural; as, "I love, we love." In each number there are three persons;

Mood or Mode is a particular form of the verb, showing the manner in which the being, action or passion is represented.

There are five moods of verbs, the Indicative, the Imperative, the Potential, the Subjunctive, and the Infinitive.

The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares a thing; as, "He loves; he is lov

ed:" or it asks a question; as, "Does he love? Is he loved?

The Imperative Mood is used for commanding, exhorting, intreating, or permitting; as, "Depart thou; mind ye; let us stay; go in peace."

The Potential Mood implies possibility or liberty, power, will, obligation; as, "It may rain; he may go or stay; I can ride; he would walk; they should learn."

The Subjunctive Mood represents a thing under a condition, motive, wish, supposition, &c. and is preceded by a conjunction, expressed or understood, and attended by another verb; as, "I will respect him, though he chide me;" "Were be good, he would be happy;" that is, If he were good."

The Infinitive Mood expresses a thing in a general and unlimited manner, without any distinction of number or person; as, "to act; to speak; to be feared."

The Participle is a certain form of the verb, and derives its name from its participating, not only the properties of a verb, but also those of an adjective; as, "I am desirous of knowing him" "Admired and applauded, he became vain ;" "Having finished his work, he submitted it ;" &c.

There are three Participles; the Present or Active, the Perfect or Passive, and the C2

Compound Perfect; as, "loving, loved,having loved."

THE TENSES.

Tense, being the distinction of time,might seem to admit only of the present, past and future; but to mark it more accurately, it is made to consist of six variations; viz. the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the First and Second Future Tenses.

The Present Tense represents an action. or event, as passing at the time in which it is mentioned; as, "I rule; I am ruled; I think; I fear."

The Imperfect Tense represents the action or event, either as past and finished, or as remaining unfinished at a certain time past; as, "I loved her for her modesty and virtue "They were travelling post when he met them."

The Perfect Tense not only refers to what is past, but also conveys an allusion to the present time; as, " I have finished my let“I ter;" "I have seen 66 the person that was recommended to me."

The Pluperfect Tense represents a thing, not only as past, but also as prior to some other point of time specified in the sentence; as, "I had finished my letter before he arrived."

The First Future Tense represents the ac