EXERCISE 2.

Underline the verbs in the following sentences, and mark their forms; for example : — 1 Sing. Poten: Pres: Comp.: I may have served that is, first person singular, potential, present, complete.

We shall have finished our work at four o'clock. He did play much better than he does. You have been talking more than two hours. Next Christmas I shall have been learning French four years. You will find him there. She is working in the arbour. I had been teaching for six hours. To-morrow I shall be writing all day. He was digging in the garden. I had finished breakfast. We were writing our exercises when the postman brought the letters. I do think it very unjust. Tell me what has happened. He has served me very faithfully many years. The master promised the scholars a holiday. The boys read an hour every day. I thought I should have finished my exercise before dinner. My brother says he may arrive on Thursday next. He was repeating those lines to me when you knocked at the door. Whatever you may think, I shall be quite ready. Having been writing all the morning, he wished to go out. If he had been industrious, he might have been now gaining his livelihood. I fear he will never succeed. He had been working four hours when I called upon him. I had finished my breakfast before you arrived. Seeing the necessity for exertion, the secretary resolved to adopt a new plan. Do tell me what you think about this matter. I have been endeavouring to discover his real motives. By next spring, he will have travelled over the greater part of the Continent. He expects to see all his family.

There are no progressive or emphatic forms in the passive voice.

Present.

EXERCISE 1.

be commanded,'' to be obliged,' 'to be ruined.' Let the learner study the above table, and write similar 'to be named,' 'to be addressed,'' to be injured,' 'to tables of the verbs 'to be persuaded,' 'to be examined,'