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Chapter XXIII: On the Auxiliary Verbs

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578. Classification 459
579. Time and tense 461
Present 461
Aorist 461
Future 461
Imperfect 462
Perfect 462
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Pluperfect 462
Future present 462
Future praeterite 462
Emphatic tenses 463
Predictive future 463
Promissive future 463
580. _Historic_ present 463
581. Use of perfect for present 464
582, 583. Varieties of tense 465
Continuance 465
Habit 466
584. Inference of continuance 466
Inference of contrast 467
585. _Have_ with a participle 467
586. _I am to speak_ 469
587. _I am to blame_ 469
588. _Shall_ and _will_ 469
589. Archdeacon Hare's theory 470
590. Mr. De Morgan's theory 472
591. _I am beaten_ 474
592, 593. Present use of _ought, &c._ 475

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE SYNTAX OF ADVERBS.

594. The syntax of adverbs simple 477
595. _Full_ for _fully, &c._ 477
596. The termination _-ly_ 477
597. _To sleep the sleep of the righteous_ 478
598. From _whence, &c._ 478

CHAPTER XXV.

ON PREPOSITIONS.

599. All prepositions govern cases 479
600, 601. None, in English, govern genitives 479
602. Dative case after prepositions 481
603. From _to die_ 481
604. For _to go_ 481
605. No prepositions in composition 481

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