INFINITIVE MOOD.

Pres.  Tense.  To love.  Perf.  Tense.  To have loved.

PARTICIPLES.

Present or imperfect, Loving. 
Perfect or passive, Loved. 
Compound, Having loved.

NOTE.  The perfect participle of a regular verb, corresponds exactly with the imperfect tense; yet the former may, at all times, be distinguished from the latter, by the following rule:  In composition, the imperfect tense of a verb always has a nominative, either expressed or implied:  the perfect participle never has.

For your encouragement, allow me to inform you, that when you shall have learned to conjugate the verb to love, you will be able to conjugate all the regular verbs in the English language, for they are all conjugated precisely in the same manner.  By pursuing the following direction, you can, in a very short time, learn to conjugate any verb.  Conjugate the verb love through all the moods and tenses, in the first person singular, with the pronoun I before it, and speak the Participles:  thus, Indicative mood, pres. tense, first pers. sing.  I love, imperf. tense, I loved; perf. tense, I have loved; and so on, through every mood and tense.  Then conjugate it in the second pers. sing, with the pronoun thou before it, through all the moods and tenses; thus, Indic. mood, pres. tense, second pers. sing, thou lovest; imperf. tense, thou lovedst; and so on, through the whole.  After that, conjugate it in the third pers. sing, with he before it; and then in the first pers. plural, with we before it, in like manner through all the moods and tenses.  Although this mode of procedure may, at first, appear to be laborious, yet, as it is necessary, I trust you will not hesitate to adopt it.  My confidence in your perseverance, induces me to recommend any course which I know will tend to facilitate your progress.

When you shall have complied with my requisition, you may conjugate the following verbs in the same manner; which will enable you, hereafter, to tell the mood and tense of any verb without hesitation:  walk, hate, smile, rule, conquer, reduce, relate, melt, shun, fail.

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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.

The changes in the termination of words, in all languages, have been formed by the coalescence of words of appropriate meaning.  This subject was approached on page 49.  It is again taken up for the purpose of showing, that the moods and tenses, as well as the number and person, of English verbs, do not solely depend on inflection.

The coalescing syllables which form the number and person of the Hebrew verb, are still considered pronouns; and, by those who have investigated the subject, it is conceded, that the same plan has been adopted in the formation