The auxiliary To have, when followed by an Infinitive, is often understood as expressive of an obligation to perform what that infinitive denotes; and phrases so constructed may be considered as an additional tense. Thus : In some languages, Transitive Verbs have terminations in several of their tenses, which denote that the nominative, instead of being the agent, is the patient of the action. This is the Passive Voice formerly mentioned. In English, its tenses are all compound, and formed by prefixing those of the verb To be to the Past Participle. Thus: Pers. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 1st. I shall, or will, have been painted. He, she, or it, shall, or will, have been painted. We shall, or will, have been painted. 2nd. Ye, or you, shall, or will, have been painted. 3rd. They shall, or will, have been painted. 156 CHAPTER XVII. OF IRREGULAR VERBS.-LIST OF. TO PAINT is a perfect and regular Transitive Verb, and taking into view the Conditional Clauses (of which we formerly treated), the conjugation here given is complete in all its tenses. The termination (ed) of its Preterite and Past Participle is the same as those of nineteen twentieths of all the Verbs in the language. The termination (ing) of the Present Participle is invariable in all, but the Preterite (Past Indefinite) and the Past or Perfect Participle, are irregular in numerous instances; and as these parts are necessary, not only singly, but in the formation of the compound tenses, we subjoin a list of those anomalous Verbs, with their variations. |