That it is inconsistent with the nature of things for a command to
be given in _future_ time, and that the _fulfilment_ of the command,
though future, has nothing to do with the tense or time of the
command itself, are truths so plain as to put to the blush the gross
absurdity of those who identify the time of the fulfilment with
that of the command.
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EXERCISES IN PARSING.
You _may read_ the book which I _have printed_. _May_, an irregular
active verb, signifying "to have and to exercise might or strength,"
indic. mood, pres. tense, second pers. plur. agreeing with its nom.
_you. Read_, an irregular verb active, infinitive mood, pres. tense,
with the sign _to_ understood, referring to _you_ as its agent.
_Have_, an active verb, signifying to _possess_, indic. present, and
having for its object, book understood after "which." _Printed_, a
perf. participle, referring to book understood.
Johnson, and Blair, and Lowth, _would have been laughed at, had_
they _essayed_ to _thrust_ any thing like our modernized
philosophical grammar down the throats of their contemporaries.
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