1. What Verb is used as the Auxiliary of the Progressive Forms? 2. What Verb is used as the Auxiliary of the Perfect Tenses? 3. What part of the principal Verb is used in the Progressive forms of the Active Voice and of Intransitive Verbs ? 4. What part of the principal Verb is used in the Perfect Tenses of the Active Voice and of Intransitive Verbs ? 5. What is the Auxiliary of the Passive Voice? 6. What part of the principal Verb is used in the Passive Voice? 7. What are the endings of the Second and Third Persons Singular of the Present Tense of the Indicative Mood? 8. What is the ending of the Second Person Singular of the Past Tense of the Indicative Mood? 371. The Verbs shall, will, may, must, can, ought, dare, and do (as an Auxiliary) lack some of the usual forms, or are otherwise irregular. Verbs that lack some of the usual forms are called Defective. Most of them are Auxiliary Verbs. 373. Forms of the Verb Will. ORIGINALLY PRESENT FORMS. NOTE. Besides the uses of shall and will mentioned in pars. 316, 317, 348, and seen in the Conjugations, it may be noted that (1) Should expresses, particularly when in the Indicative Mood, duty or obligation; as, "You should go to him at once." (2) Will and would are used, with all three Persons, to express habitual or customary action; as, "He will do that over and over, all day long." "How we would go off in our boat, day after day! (3) Will and would are used to express a wish; as, "I would that I were dead." "Do what thou wilt with me." 374. Forms of the Verb May. ORIGINALLY PRESENT FORMS.1 *375. May and might express permission or possibility. They help to form Verbs in either the Indicative or the Subjunctive Mood (see pars. 316, 317). 376. Must has now no change of form. It may help form Verbs in either the Indicative or the Subjunctive Mood. 1 These forms may be not only Present but Future; as, "I will see if I may be excused," "He will go if he can catch the train." 2 These forms may be Past, Present or Future in use; as, "They told me yesterday he might die before noon." Here we might supply yesterday, to-day or to-morrow after the word "noon," according to what is meant. So with could. As for the use of these forms in the Subjunctive, see "Notes for Teachers," p. 321, Notes 14 and 16. 378. Can and could express ability or power. They may be either Indicative or Subjunctive (see pars. 316, 317), but when could is Indicative it is in the Past Tense; as, "We could just see the lighthouse." 379. Ought has but one change; it adds -est for Second Person Singular. 380. Dare in the Present has darest and dares (though "he dare not" is as often used as "he dares not "). The Past is durst or dared. 381. Do as a principal Verb is conjugated regularly. 382. Do as an Auxiliary has only the Present forms (do, dost, does) and the Past (did, didst). No part of the Verb do containing done or doing is employed as an Auxiliary. The uses of the Auxiliary do are 1. To make the sentence sound better; as, Thou dost prefer above all temples the upright heart and pure. It is greatly used for this purpose in poetry; as, Horses did neigh and dying men did groan And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. 2. To mark emphasis; as, "You cannot mean what you say."-"I do mean it." 3. With not; as, He does not want you. They do not know their own minds. Tom did not intend to hurt you. 4. In asking a question; as, Do you live in Brighton now? Did she hear from her father last week? 383. The Verb after do is often understood; as, |