The Conjugation Of A Verb is a regular arrangement (1) of the forms of the verb, and (2) of the verb phrases used to supplement these forms. (See conjugation,pages 336-338).

Exercise 277

Use a table like the one given for the preceding exercise, and write as much of the conjugation of the following verbs as you have already written of the verb be: praise, write, see, and do.

Exercise 278

Give the tenses of the following phrases, and name each verb form: shall take, had taken, have gone, shall have seen, had jumped, will have recited, had followed, will forget, had forgotten, will have remembered, has drowned, shall enjoy, has attacked, shall have spoken.

Exercise 279. Development

1.

I praise.

I am praising.

2.

I praised.

I was praising.

3.

I shall praise.

I shall be praising.

4.

I have praised.

I have been praising. -

5.

I had praised.

I had been praising.

6.

I shall have praised.

I shall have been praising.

Compare each, verb phrase in the column at the right with the corresponding verb or verb phrase at the left. You see the two do not differ in tense. How do they differ in meaning? The right-hand phrases are called progressive phrases. Why? Name each verb form found in the phrases as verb, present participle, past participle, or infinitive.