LESSON LII.

As the Passive Voice is always formed by adding the past participle of a Transitive Verb to the various parts of the Verb To be, it is necessary to exhibit at one view the complete conjugation of this Verb:--

The Verb To be is the only English Verb which has a distinct form for the Subjunctive Mood.

Write out the Passive Voice of the Verb To love.

Note. To do this we have simply to attach the Past Participle loved to the complete conjugation of the Verb To be, as given in last Lesson.

THE VERB, To love.-Passive Voice.

INDICATIVE MOOD.

PRESENT TENSE.

Thus:

Singular.

1. I am loved.

2. Thou art loved.

3. He is loved.

&c.

Plural.

1. We are loved.

2. You are loved.
3. They are loved.

&c.

LESSON LIV.

Parse* fully all the Verbs in the following Exercise :—

My Uncle Toby laid down his knife and fork, and thrust his plate from before him, as the landlord gave him the account. The Italian robbers are a desperate class of men, that have almost formed themselves into an order of society. He should have gone when you ordered him. To tell the truth, he had no desire to leave home. Cæsar, having sailed to Britain, landed on the shores of Kent.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere,

Of me you shall not win renown:

You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
At me you smiled; but, unbeguiled,
I saw the snare, and I retired:-
The daughter of a hundred Earls,
You are not one to be desired.

There is a reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;

It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in his sheaves.

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast

To see the form of a maiden fair

Lashed close to a drifting mast!

The salt sea was frozen on her breast,

The salt tears in her eyes;

And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,

On the billows+ fall and rise.

*To parse--from Latin pars, "a a part" -means to tell the class, subdivision, and inflections of any part of speech.

To is understood.

THE VERB.-FORM.

LESSON LV.

When the Present Participle of a Verb is joined to the complete conjugation of the Verb To be, it forms what is termed the Progressive Form of the Active Voice. The Progressive Form indicates that the action expressed by the Verb is going on, if in present time; was going on, if in past time; or will be going on, if in future time. Write out the Progressive Form, Active Voice, of the Verb To love. Thus :—

Active Voice.-Progressive Form.

INDICATIVE MOOD.

Parse the Verbs in the following Exercise:

The king was calling his soldiers together. The soldier was called forth from the ranks, and received the Victoria cross. I am coming, little maiden, with the flowers and sunshine laden. He was striking the fatal blow when we arrived upon the scene. The child was reading his lesson when the master entered. The boy is spinning his top. He has been writing his exercise for nearly two hours. He had been teasing his little sister for a long time, when his mother came in and told him to leave the room.

From the streams and founts I have loosed the chain ;—

They are rolling on to the silvery main;

They are flashing down from the mountain brows,

They are flinging spray on the forest boughs;

They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves,
And the earth resounds with the joy of waves.

The noble stag was pausing now
Upon the mountain's southern brow,
Where broad extended, far beneath,
The varied realins of fair Menteith.