War on Russia was declared by Germany on August 1, 1914.

  1. Germany declared war on Russia, August 1, 1914.
  2. Who will sign the Emancipation Proclamation of the Proletariat?
  3. Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto.
  4. Spain murdered Francisco Ferrer, October 13, 1909.
  5. We celebrate the first of May as International Labor Day.
  6. The people of Paris stormed the Bastille, July 14, 1789.
  7. Wat Tyler was leading the English workers in rebellion against the King when the Mayor of London stabbed him in 1381.
  8. The Inquisition burned Bruno at the stake for heresy in 1600.
  9. The Paris Commune followed the German siege of Paris in 1871.

SUMMARY

145. Now let us take the verb see and name all the time forms which we can describe with the changes in the verb forms which we have learned to make and also with the verb phrases which we can construct with the help of the verbs, be, have, shall and will.

First, we want to express the present, what is happening now, and we want to put it in both the active and passive forms, so we say:

PRESENT TIME
Active Passive
Singular Singular
I see. I am seen.
You see. You are seen.
He sees. He is seen.
Plural Plural
We see. We are seen.
You see. You are seen.
They see. They are seen.

Note that the only change in the verb form in the present ACTIVE is the s-form for the third person singular. In the present passive the only change is the special form of the verb be for the first and third persons, singular.

When we want to tell what occurred yesterday or some time in the past, stated in the active and passive form, we say:

PAST TIME
Active Passive
Singular Singular
I saw. I was seen.
You saw. You were seen.
He saw. He was seen.
Plural Plural
We saw. We were seen.
You saw. You were seen.
They saw. They were seen.

We have one other division of time which we must express—the future. Primitive man doubtless lived principally in the present, but with the development of memory and the means of recording events by a written language, he was able to make the deeds and achievements of the past a vital part of his life. But not until the faculty of thinking developed was the mind able to project itself into the future and make tomorrow the hope of today. Future time expresses hope, desire, growth.