| SYNTAX ————|————- Verbs. | selling |Mod. of Yankee. wanders |Pred. of Yankee. seek |Prin. word in phrase | Mod. of wanders.
[Footnote: Participles and infinitives have neither person nor number.]
(See Model for Written Parsing on opposite page.)
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LESSON 140.
CONSTRUCTION OF MODE AND TENSE FORMS.
+Caution+.—Be careful to give every verb its proper form and meaning.
+Direction+.—Correct the following errors, and give your reasons:—
1. I done it myself. 2. He throwed it into the river, for I seen him when he done it. 3. She sets by the open window enjoying the scene that lays before her.
+Explanation+.—Lay (to place) is transitive, lie (to rest) is intransitive; set (to place) is transitive, sit (to rest) is intransitive. Set in some of its meanings is intransitive.