ave been loved; 3. They might have been loved.
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
PRESENT TENSE.
_Singular_. _Plural_.
1. If I be loved, 1. If we be loved,
2. If thou be loved, 2. If you be loved,
3. If he be loved; 3. If they be loved.
IMPERFECT TENSE.
_Singular_. _Plural_.
1. If I were loved, 1. If we were loved,
2. If thou were loved, 2. If you were loved,
3. If he were loved; 3. If they were loved.
IMPERATIVE MOOD.
PRESENT TENSE.
_Singular_. 2. Be [thou] loved, _or_ Do thou be loved;
_Plural_. 2. Be [ye or you] loved, _or_ Do you be loved.
PARTICIPLES.
1. _The Imperfect_. 2. _The Perfect_. 3. _The Preperfect_.
Being loved. Loved. Having been loved.
FAMILIAR FORM WITH 'THOU.' NOTE.--In the familiar style, the second person
singular of this verb, is usually and more properly formed thus: IND. Thou
art loved, Thou was loved, Thou hast been loved, Thou had been loved, Thou
shall or will be loved, Thou shall or will have been loved. POT. Thou may,
can, _or_ must be loved; Thou might, could, would, _or_ should be loved;
Thou may, can, _or_ must have been loved; Thou might, could, would, _or_
should have been loved. SUBJ. If thou be loved, If thou were loved. IMP. Be
[thou] loved, or Do thou be loved.
OBSERVATIONS.
OBS. 1.--A few active-intransitive verbs, that signify mere motion, change
of place, or change of condition, may be put into this form, with a
_neuter_ signification; making not _passive_ but _neuter_ verbs, which
express nothing more than the state which results from the change: as, "_I
am come_."--"She _is gone_."--"He _is risen_."--"They _are fallen_." These
are what Dr. Johnson and some others call "_neuter_ passives;" a name which
never was very proper, and for which we have no frequent use.
OBS. 2.--Most neuter verbs of the passive form, such as, "_am grown, art
become, is lain, are flown, are vanished, are departed, was sat, were
arrived_," may now be considered errors of conjugation, or perhaps of
syntax. In the verb, _to be mistaken_, there is an irregularity which ought
to be particularly noticed. When applied to _persons_, this verb is
commonly taken in a _neuter_ sense, and signifies, _to be in error, to be
wrong_; as, "I _am mistaken_, thou _art mistaken_, he _is mistake_." But,
when used of _things_, it is a proper passive
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