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e; their faces all this time betrayed considerable anxiety. 5. We joined the crowd, and used our lungs as well as any. 6. The lakes were soon covered with merry skaters, and every afternoon the banks were crowded with spectators. 7. People were setting up torches and lengthening the rafts which had been already formed. 8. The water was first brought in barrels drawn by horses, till some officer came and opened the fire plug. 9. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. (_b_) Find sentences with five verbs in the active and five in the passive voice. MOOD. [Sidenote: _Definition._] 213. The word _mood_ is from the Latin _modus_, meaning _manner_, _way_, _method_. Hence, when applied to verbs,-- Mood means the manner of conceiving and expressing action or being of some subject. [Sidenote: _The three ways._] 214. There are three chief ways of expressing action or being:-- (1) As a fact; this may be a question, statement, or assumption. (2) As doubtful, or merely conceived of in the mind. (3) As urged or commanded. INDICATIVE MOOD. [Sidenote: _Deals with facts._] 215. The term _indicative_ is from the Latin _indicare_ (to declare, or assert). The indicative represents something as a fact,-- [Sidenote: _Affirms or denies._] (1) _By declaring a thing to be true or not to be true_; thus,-- Distinction _is_ the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.--ALLSTON. I _do not remember_ when or by whom I _was taught_ to read; because I _cannot_ and never _could recollect_ a time when I _could not read_ my Bible.--D. WEBSTER. [Sidenote: _Assumed as a fact._] [Sidenote: _Caution._] (2) _By assuming a thing to be true_ without declaring it to be so. This kind of indicative clause is usually introduced by _if_ (meaning _admitting that, granting that_, etc.), _though, although_, etc. Notice that the action is not merely conceived as possible; it is assumed to be a fact: for example,-- If the penalties of rebellion hung over an unsuccessful contest; if America was yet in the cradle of her political existence; if her population little exceeded two millions; if she was without government, without fleets or armies, arsenals or magazines, without military knowledge,--still her citizens had a just and elevated sense of her right
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