This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...prepositions, give the meaning intended, and are called gerunds: 'I come to write ', 'I have work to do', 'the course to steer by ', 'ready for sailing', 'sharpened for cutting'. It is useful to point out this signification of these forms, partly to facilitate translation into the classical languages, and partly to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...prepositions, give the meaning intended, and are called gerunds: 'I come to write ', 'I have work to do', 'the course to steer by ', 'ready for sailing', 'sharpened for cutting'. It is useful to point out this signification of these forms, partly to facilitate translation into the classical languages, and partly to explain some idioms of our own language. 'A house to let', 'I have work to do', 'there is no more to say ', are phrases where the verb is not in the common infinitive, but in the form of the gerund. 'He is the man to do it, or for doing it.' When the 'to ' ceased in the 12th century to be a distinctive mark of the dat. inlin. or gerund, 'for' was introduced to make the writer's intention clear. Hence the familiar form in 'what went ye out for to see I' 'they came for to show him the temple '. 8. Tense is the variation of the verb to express the time of an action, modified by the other circumstances of completeness and incompleteness above mentioned in connexion with the participle. 'I come' (present, 'I came' (past); 'I call' (pres.), 'I called' (past). These are the only tenses made by inflexion; but by combination with other words, future time is also expressed, --' I shall come ', 'he will come '. In 0. E. the want of a future form was usually supplied by the present tense. (Compare 49). These compound forms, and a great variety of modes of past, present, and future, are represented in the full scheme of the verb ( 40). Strong Verbs are such as form the past tense, by change of the root vowel: 'hold, held'; 'fall, fell'; 'drink, drank'; 'come, came '. As in all the other Indo-European languages, so in English, even the present tense is a form considerably modified from the original root. The chief means of change in English have be...
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