CHAPTER VI.—­VERBS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.

LESSON I.—­PRETERITS.

“In speaking on a matter which touched their hearts.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “Though Horace published it some time after.”—­Id. “The best subjects with which the Greek models furnished him.”—­Id. “Since he attached no thought to it.”—­Id. “By what slow steps the Greek alphabet reached its perfection.”—­Id. “Because Goethe wished to erect an affectionate memorial.”—­Id. “But the Saxon forms soon dropped away.”—­Id. “It speaks of all the towns that perished in the age of Philip.”—­Id. “This enriched the written language with new words.”—­Id. “He merely furnished his friend with matter for laughter.”—­Id. “A cloud arose, and stopped the light.”—­Swift cor. “She slipped spadillo in her breast.”—­Id. “I guessed the hand.”—­Id. “The tyrant stripped me to the skin; My skin he flayed, my hair he cropped; At head and foot my body lopped.”—­Id. “I see the greatest owls in you, That ever screeched or ever flew.”—­Id. “I sat with delight, From morning till night.”—­Id. “Dick nimbly skipped the gutter.”—­Id. “In at the pantry door this morn I slipped.”—­Id.” Nobody living ever touched me, but you.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Present, I ship; Preterit, I shipped; Perf.  Participle, shipped.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Then the king arose, and tore his garments.”—­Bible cor. “When he lifted up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next.”—­Bunyan cor. “He lifted up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.”—­Bible cor. “Upon this chaos rode the distressed ark.”—­Burnet cor. “On whose foolish honesty, my practices rode easy.”—­Shakspeare cor. “That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which rose immediately out of chaos.”—­Burnet cor. “Sir, how came it, you have helped to make this rescue?”—­Shak. cor. “He swore he would rather lose all his father’s images, than that table.”—­Peacham cor. “When our language dropped its ancient terminations.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “When themselves they vilified.”—­Milton cor. “But I chose rather to do thus.”—­Barclay cor. “When he pleaded (or pled) against the parsons.”—­Hist. cor. “And he that saw it, bore record.”  Or:  “And he that saw it, bare record.”—­John, xix, 35.  “An irregular verb has one more variation; as, drive, drivest, [driveth,] drives, drove, drovest, driving, driven.”—­Matt.  Harrison cor. “Beside that village, Hannibal pitched his camp.”—­W.  Walker cor. “He fetched it from Tmolus.”—­Id. “He supped with his morning-gown on.”—­Id. “There stamped her sacred name.”—­Barlow cor.