. What kind of verb is to be?-You will conjugate this verb, through all its modes, tenses, numbers, and persons, beginning with the indicative mode, present tense, first person singular.-In what mode, tense, number, and person, do you find each of the following expressions, from this verb: We were; He has been; I had been; They will have been; Thou shouldst be; We may have been; I might have been; If thou wert; To be?-What kind of participle is being ?--What kind is been? REVIEW. You are and you were are used much more frequently than thou art, and thou wast, even when the singular number is intended. The phrase you was, though often heard in colloquial and extemporaneous discourse, is not well supported by standard writers, and consequently must be considered vulgar. This verb to be is the most irregular verb in the language, and one which it is of the utmost importance to commit thoroughly to memory, and to understand well. This verb, unlike any other, forms its imperfect subjunctive, in the singular number, very different from the singular of the indicative imperfect; as I was, if I were. &c. 1 We might, could, would, or should have loved Ye or you might, could, would, or should have loved 3 He might, could, would, or 3 They might, could, would, or What kind of verb is love?—You may now conjugate this verb, beginning with the indicative mode, present tense, first person, singular.-In what mode, tense, number, and person, do you find each of the following expressions, from this verb: It loveth; We loved; Thou hast loved; You had loved; They will love; Love ye; We can love; I might love; You might have loved; If we love; If we have loved?In the indicative mode, how do you |