Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 95–96 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
72. Regular, irregular, defective and redundant verbs
Goal: Your child knows regular and irregular verbs and corrects wrong past forms like "throwed" and "brung."
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Page 118 has review questions and sentences for telling mode, tense, person and number. Lesson 95 defines regular and irregular verbs, and Lesson 96 defective and redundant verbs, with a model and fourteen sentences to correct.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask for the progressive form of "read" in the past tense.
Regular and irregular
Read:
A Regular Verb forms its past indicative and perfect participle by adding d or ed to the present indicative;
Saylove, loved, loved. Irregular verbs don't follow this: go, went, gone. The Appendix lists them.
Defective and redundant
Read:
Defective Verbs are those which want some of the principal parts.
Redundant Verbs are those which have more than one form for their past tense and perfect participle;
Use the model
The book's model:
The man throwed a stone.
The book says throwed should be threw, the past indicative of throw.
Correct the sentences
Correct some from the page:
He has brung some snow into the school-house.
The cars have ran off the track.
The plastering has fell from the ceiling.
Mode, tense, person, number
From page 118, do a few:
They have seen.
If he go.
America was discovered.
Use it today
The book says to correct mistakes with irregular verbs that you notice in conversation. Listen for one today.
Answers to the book's problems
Corrections: I have seen; ought to have gone; were strung; has brought; was woven; came cantering; has worn; have run; rang (and the news was received, if you like); climbed, shook; be blown out; I lay down, and rose; driven; has fallen. Page 118: 1 ran: indicative, past, third, singular. 2 teach: indicative, present, second, plural form. 3 have seen: indicative, present perfect, third, plural. 4 go: subjunctive, present, third, singular. 5 may have written: potential, present perfect, third, plural. 6 Has departed: indicative, present perfect, third, singular. 7 will command: indicative, future, third, plural. 8 will have recited: indicative, future perfect, third, singular. 9 will be disbanded: indicative, future, passive, third, singular. 10 was discovered: indicative, past, passive, third, singular. 11 should be: potential, past, third, plural. 12 has invented: indicative, present perfect, third, singular. 13 Attend: imperative, present, second person. 14 can go: potential, present, third, singular. 15 loves: indicative, present, third, singular; to see, rain: infinitives.
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