Ed—­the imperfect tense of regular verbs; as, loved, smiled, hated, walked.

Have—­the perfect; as, have loved.

Had—­the pluperfect; as, had loved. Shall or will—­the first future; as, shall love, or will love; shall smile, will smile.

Shall or will have—­the second future; as, shall have loved, or will have loved.

    NOTE.  There are some exceptions to these signs, which you will
    notice by referring to the conjugation in the potential mood.

Now, I hope you will so far consult your own ease and advantage, as to commit, perfectly, the signs of the moods and tenses before you proceed farther than to the subjunctive mood.  If you do, the supposed Herculean task of learning to conjugate verbs, will be transformed into a few hours of pleasant pastime.

The Indicative Mood has six tenses. 
The Subjunctive has also six tenses. 
The Imperative has only one tense. 
The Potential has four tenses. 
The Infinitive has two tenses.

CONJUGATION OF VERBS.

The CONJUGATION of a verb is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses.

The Conjugation of an active verb, is styled the active voice; and that of a passive verb, the passive voice.

Verbs are called Regular when they form their imperfect tense of the indicative mood, and their perfect participle, by adding to the present tense ed, or d only when the verb ends in e; as,

Pres.  Tense.  Imp.  Tense.  Perf.  Participle
I favor.  I favor_ed_. favor_ed_. 
I love.  I love_d_, love_d_.

A Regular Verb is conjugated in the following manner.

TO LOVE.—­INDICATIVE MOOD.

Present Tense.

Singular. Plural. 1. Pers.  I love, 1.  We love, 2. Pers.  Thou lovest, 2.  Ye or you love, 3. Pers.  He, she, or it, loveth 3.  They love.
             or loves.

When we wish to express energy or positiveness, the auxiliary do should precede the verb in the present tense:  thus,

Singular.                    Plural.
1.  I do love,                       1.  We do love,
2.  Thou dost love,                  2.  Ye or you do love,
3.  He doth or does love.          3.  They do love.

Imperfect Tense.

Singular.                  Plural.
1.  I loved,                       1.  We loved,
2.  Thou lovedst,                  2.  Ye or you loved,
3.  He loved.                      3.  They loved.

Or by-prefixing did to the present:  thus,