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86 REVIEW OF THE ACTIVE VOICE

LESSON XXXIV

REVIEW OF THE ACTIVE VOICE

197. A review of the tenses of the indicative active shows the following formation:

TENSES OF THE INDICATIVE

Present = First of the principal parts

Imperfect = Present stem + -ba-m

Future = Present stem +

-bō, Conj. I and II
-a-m, Conj. III and IV

Perfect = Third of the principal parts

Pluperfect = Perfect stem + -era-m

Future Perfect = Perfect stem + -erō

198. The synopsis of the active voice of amō, as far as we have learned the conjugation, is as follows:

Principal Parts amō, amāre, amāvī

Pres. Stem amā-

Perf. Stem amāv-

Indic.

Pres. amō

Indic.

Perf. amāvī
Imperf. amābam Pluperf. amāveram
Fut. amā Fut. perf. amāverō

Pres. Imv. amā

Pres. Infin. amāre

Perf. Infin. amāvisse

1. Learn to write in the same form and to give rapidly the principal parts and synopsis of parō, dō, laudō, dēleō, habeō, moveō, pareō, videō, dīcō, discēdō, dūcō, mittō, capiō, mūniō, veniō.[1]

199. Learn the following principal parts:[2]

Pres. Indic. Pres. Infin. Perf. Indic.
Irregular
Verbs

sum
ab´sum

esse
abes´se

dare

fuī
ā´fuī

dedī

be
be away

give

  1. Learn to give synopses rapidly, and not only in the first person singular but in any person of either number.
  2. These are all verbs that you have had before, and the perfect is the only new form to be learned.