LESSON 96.
ERRORS IN THE FORM OF THE VERB.
CORRECT THE FOLLOWING ERRORS.
+Model+.—Those things have not came to-day.
Wrong, because the past came is here used for the past participle come. The present perfect tense is formed by prefixing have to the past participle.
I done all my work before breakfast.
I come in a little late yesterday.
He has went to my desk without permission.
That stupid fellow set down on my new hat.
Set is generally transitive, and sit is intransitive. Lay is transitive, and lie is intransitive.
He sat the chair in the corner.
Sit that plate on the table, and let it set.
I have set in this position a long time.
That child will not lay still or set still a minute.
I laid down under the tree, and enjoyed the scenery.
Lie that stick on the table, and let it lay.
Those boys were drove out of the fort three times.
I have rode through the park.
I done what I could.
He has not spoke to-day.
The leaves have fell from the trees.
This sentence is wrote badly.
He throwed his pen down, and said that the point was broke.
He teached me grammar.
I seen him when he done it.
My hat was took off my head, and throwed out of the window.
The bird has flew into that tall tree.
I was chose leader.
I have began to do better. I begun this morning.
My breakfast was ate in a hurry.
Your dress sets well.
That foolish old hen is setting on a wooden egg.
He has tore it up and throwed it away.
William has took my knife, and I am afraid he has stole it.
This should be well shook.
I begun to sing, before I knowed what I was doing.
We drunk from a pure spring.
I thought you had forsook us.
His pencil is nearly wore up.
He come, and tell me all he knowed about it.