| Pres. Tense | Sing. | I may, can, or must be loved, thou mayst, canst, or must, &c. |
| Plur. | We may, can, or must be loved, you may, can, or must, &c. | |
| Imperf. Tense. | Sing. | I might, could, would, or should be loved, thou mightst, &c. |
| Plur. | We might, could, would, or should be loved, ye or you, &c. | |
| Perfect Tense. | Sing. | I may, can, or must have been loved, thou mayst, canst, &c. |
| Plur. | We may, can, or must have been loved, you may, can, &c. | |
| Plup. Tense. | Sing. | I might, could, would, or should have been loved, thou mightst, couldst, wouldst, or shouldst have |
| Plur. | We might, could, would, or should have been loved, you might, could, would, or should have been loved, they, &c. |
INFINITIVE MOOD.
| Pres. Tense. | To be loved. | Perf. Tense. | To have been loved. |
PARTICIPLES.
| Present, | Being loved. | Perfect or Passive, | Loved. | Compound, | Having been loved. |
NOTE. This conjugation of the passive verb to be loved, is called the passive, voice of the regular active-transitive verb to love.
Now conjugate the following passive verbs; that is, speak them in the first pers. sing, and plur. of each tense, through all the moods, and speak the participles; "to be loved, to be rejected, to be slighted, to be conquered, to be seen, to be beaten, to be sought, to be taken."
NOTE 1. When the perfect participle of an intransitive verb is joined to the neuter verb to be, the combination is not a passive verb, but a neuter verb in a passive form; as, "He is gone; The birds are flown; The boy is grown; My friend is arrived." The following mode of construction, is, in general, to be preferred; "He has gone; The birds have flown; The boy has grown; My Friend has arrived."
2. Active and neuter verbs may be conjugated by adding their present participle to the auxiliary verb to be, through all its variations; as, instead of, I teach, thou teachest, he teaches, &c., we may say, I am teaching, thou art teaching, he is teaching, &c.; and, instead of, I taught, &c.; I was teaching, &c. This mode of conjugation expresses the continuation of an action or state of being; and has, on some occasions, a peculiar propriety, and contributes to the harmony and precision of language. When the present participle of an active verb is joined with the neuter verb to be, the two words united, are, by some grammarians, denominated an active verb, either transitive or intransitive, as the case may be; as, "I am writing a letter; He is walking:" and when the present participle of a neuter verb is thus employed, they term the combination a neuter verb; as, "I am sitting; He is standing." Others, in constructions like these, parse each word separately. Either mode may be adopted.