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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