[197.] A review of the tenses of the indicative active shows the following formation:
| TENSES OF THE INDICATIVE | Present= First of the principal parts | |
| Imperfect= Present stem + -ba-m | ||
| Future= Present stem + | -bō, Conj. I and II -a-m, Conj. III and IV | |
| Perfect= Third of the principal parts | ||
| Pluperfect= Perfect stem + -era-m | ||
| Future Perfect= Perfect stem + -erō | ||
[198.] The synopsis of the active voice of amō, as far as we have learned the conjugation, is as follows:
Principal Parts amō, amāre, amāvī
| Pres. Stemamā- | Perf. Stemamāv- | ||
| Indic. | Pres. amō | Indic. | Perf. amāvī |
| Imperf. amābam | Pluperf. amāveram | ||
| Fut. amābō | Fut. perf. amāverō | ||
| Pres. Imv. amā | |||
| Pres. Infin. amāre | Perf. Infin. amāvisse | ||
1. Learn to write in the same form and to give rapidly the principal parts and synopsis of parō, dō, laudō, dēleō, habeō, moveō, pāreō, videō, dīcō, discēdō, dūcō, mittō, capiō, muniō, veniō.1
1. Learn to give synopses rapidly, and not only in the first person singular but in any person of either number.
[199.] Learn the following principal parts:2
2. These are all verbs that you have had before, and the perfect is the only new form to be learned.