The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

7.  ACT.  “Present.  Pursuing.  Perfect.  Pursued.  Compound perfect.  Having pursued.”  PAS. “Present and Perfect.  Pursued, or being pursued. Compound Perfect.  Having been pursued.”—­Rev. W. Allen’s Gram., pp. 88 and 93.  Here the first two passive forms, and their names too, are thrown together; the former as equivalents, the latter as coalescents.

8.  “TRANSITIVE. Pres. Loving, Perf. Having loved.  PASSIVE. Pres. Loved or Being loved, Perf. Having been loved.”—­Parkhurst’s Gram. for Beginners, p. 110.  Here the second active form is wanting; and the second passive is confounded with the first.

9.  ACT. “Imperfect, Loving [;] Perfect, Having loved [.]” PAS. “Imperfect, Being loved [;] Perfect, Loved, Having been loved.”—­Wells’s School Gram., pp. 99 and 101.  Here, too, the second active is not given; the third is called by the name of the second; and the second passive is confounded with the third, as if they were but forms of the same thing.

10.  ACT. “Imperfect, (Present,) Loving. Perfect.  Having loved. Auxiliary Perfect, Loved.”  PAS. “Imperfect, (Present,) Being loved. Perfect, Having been loved. Passive, Loved.”—­N.  Butler’s Pract.  Gram., pp. 84 and 91.  Here the common order of most of the participles is very improperly disturbed, and as many are misnamed.

11.  ACT.  “Present, Loving [;] Perfect, Loved [;] Comp.  Perf.  Having loved [.]” PAS.  “Present, Being loved [;] Perfect, Loved, or been loved [;] Compound Perfect, Having been loved.”—­Frazee’s Improved Gram., 63 and 73.  Here the second participle passive has two forms, one of which, “been loved,” is not commonly recognized, except as part of some passive verb or preperfect participle.

12.  ACT.  V. “Imperfect, Seeing. Perfect, Seen. Compound, Having seen.”  PAS.  V. “Preterimperfect, Being seen. Preterperfect, Having been seen.”—­Churchill’s New Gram., p. 102.  Here the chief and radical passive participle is lacking, and neither of the compounds is well named.

13.  ACT. “Present, Loving, [;] Past, Loved, [;] Com.  Past, Having loved.”  PAS. “Present, Being loved. [;] Past, Loved. [;] Com.  Past. [,] Having been loved.”—­Felton’s Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., of 1843, pp. 37 and 50.

14.  ACT.  “Present. [,] Loving. [;] Perfect. [,] Loved. [;] Compound Perfect. [,] Having loved.”  PAS.  “Perfect or Passive.  Loved.  Compound Perfect.  Having been loved.”—­Bicknell’s Gram.  Lond., 1790, Part I, pp. 66 and 70; L.  Murray’s 2d Edition, York, 1796, pp. 72 and 77.  Here “Being loved,” is not noticed.

15. “Participles.  Active Voice.  Present. Loving. Past.  Loved, or having loved. Participles.  Passive Voice.  Present. Being loved. Past.  Having been loved.”—­John Burn’s Practical Gram., p. 70.  Here the chief Passive term, “Loved,” is omitted, and two of the active forms are confounded.

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