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inebriated. The toasts were drank. [7] Gotten is nearly obsolete. Its compound forgotten, is still in good use. [8] Ridden is nearly obsolete. [9] Sang and sank should not be used in familiar style. [10] Spitten is nearly obsolete. In familiar writing and discourse, the following, and some other verbs, are often improperly terminated by _t_ instead of _ed_; as, "learnt, spelt, spilt, stopt, latcht." They should be, "learned, spelled, spilled, stopped, latched." You may now conjugate the following irregular verbs, in a manner similar to the conjugation of regular verbs: _arise, begin, bind, do, go, grow, run, lend, teach, write_. Thus, to _arise_--Indicative mood, pres. tense, first person, sing. I arise; imperf. tense, I arose; perf. tense, I have arisen, and so on, through all the moods, and all the tenses of each mood; and then speak the participles: thus, pres. arising, perf. arisen, comp. having arisen. In the next place, conjugate the same verb in the second person sing. through all the moods and tenses; and then in the third person sing. and in the first pers. plural. After that, you may proceed in the same manner with the words _begin, bind_, &c. Now read the eleventh and twelfth lectures _four_ or _five_ times over, and learn the order of parsing a verb. You will then be prepared to parse the following verbs in full; and I presume, all the other parts of speech. Whenever you parse, you must refer to the Compendium for definitions and rules, if you cannot repeat them without, I will now parse a verb, and describe all its properties by applying the definitions and rules according to the systematic order. "We _could_ not _accomplish_ the business." _Could accomplish_ is a verb, a word which signifies to do--active, it expresses action--transitive, the action passes over from the nom. "we" to the object "business"--regular, it will form its imperfect tense of the indic. mood and perf. part, in _ed_--potential mood, it implies possibility or power--imperfect tense, it denotes past time however distant--first pers. plural, because the nom. "we" is with which it agrees, agreeably to RULE 4. _A verb must agree_, &c. Conjugated--Indic. mood, present tense, first pers. sing. I accomplish; imperfect tense, I accomplished; perfect, I have accomplished; pluperfect, I had accomplished; and so on.--Speak it in the person of each tense through all the moods, and conjugate, in the same manner, every verb
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