The coalescing syllables which form the number and person of the
Hebrew verb, are still considered pronouns; and, by those who have
investigated the subject, it is conceded, that the same plan has
been adopted in the formation of the Latin and Greek verbs, as in
the Hebrew. Some languages have carried this process to a very great
extent. Ours is remarkable for the small number of its inflections.
But they who reject the passive verb, and those moods and tenses
which are formed by employing what are called "auxiliary verbs,"
_because they are formed of two or more verbs_, do not appear to
reason soundly. It is inconsistent to admit, that walk-_eth_, and
walk-_ed_, are tenses, because each is but one word, and to reject
_have_ walked, and _will_ walk, as tenses, because each is composed
of two words. _Eth_, as previously shown, is a contraction of
_doeth_, or _haveth_, and _ed_, of _dede, dodo, doed_, or _did_;
and, therefore, walk-_eth_; i.e. walk-_doeth_, or _doeth_-walk, and
walk-_ed_; i.e. walk-_did_, or _doed_ or _did_-walk, are, when
analyzed, as strictly compound, as _will_ walk, _shall_ walk, and
_have_ walked.
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