24 Dec. 1815

Chrestom. or Language

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Ch.5 Verb

Tense

'. Shall and Will

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For placing all this matter in what it is believed will be found a clear light, the following two scales of phrases, by one of which one of the two imports is meant to be expressed, - and by the other of them the other, will it is hoped, be found to serve.

1. - Case in which the event is meant to be represented by me (the speaker) as dependent upon my will, this may be called the imperative, or dominative, or tyrannically predictive future.

Singular Number.

1. First person singular I will perish.

2. Second person singular Thou shalt perish.

3. Third person singular He she or it shall perish.

4. First person plural We will perish.

5. Second person plural Ye shall perish.

6. Third person plural They shall perish.