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154. Only the Transitive Active can be changed into a Passive, and then its Object becomes the Subject of the

new sentence :

Brutus stabbed Caesar (Active).

Caesar was stabbed by Brutus (Passive).

155. The Dative can also become the Subject; thus—

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He paid me five shillings. I was paid five shillings by him. She told me the story.

I was told the story by her.

156. When an Active Verb is followed by a Prepositional phrase, the Noun governed by the Preposition may sometimes be turned into the Subject of the Passive, and the Preposition, following the Verb, is blended with it into a single notion.

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157. To conjugate a Verb we require to know

1. The Present Indicative;

2. The Past Indicative;

3. The Past Participle.

158. The following are lists of Verbs in common use having forms for the Past tense or for the Past Participle,

or for both, differing from the forms in the Verb love. Whenever one of two forms is included in a bracket, as knit (knitted), it implies that the form in the bracket is used, but not so commonly as the form by its side.

I. Verbs that have the same form for all three parts:

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NOTE I. -Observe that all these Verbs are words of one syllable, that all end in d or t sounds, and that they are the only Verbs in common use in which the Past tense is the same in form as the Present, except, Beat, beat, beaten.

NOTE 2. All these are Weak Verbs, and all (except

burst and let) have come from Weak Verbs in Old English, though the weak endings have been dropped. For example, hitte and redde were once forms equivalent to our Past tenses hit and read.

NOTE 3.—The Present read is pronounced like reed; the Past and Past Participle are pronounced like red.

II. Verbs that have the Past tense and Past Participle

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