Simple verbs or affirmatives are all substantive and incapable of being inflected themselves, but serve as auxiliaries in the affirmations and inflections of compound verbs, tho’ alone, without the assistance of compound verbs sufficient to express every mode of affirmations, of actions and things, and fully correspond with the nouns and pronouns, as for instance, _I am doing_, _have done_, _may_, _can_, _will_, _shall_, _must_, or ought to do; thou, _art doing_, hast done, &c; he, she, a man, or, John _is doing_, _hath done_, _speaks_, _speaketh_, &c. We _are_ or _were doing_, _have done_, &c; besides, _id_, _ed_, with their inflections ith and eth, and also _is_, added as affirmations in the third person singular to compound verbs; which express attributes, affirmations, and persons, and sometimes the subject and number, tho’ the number is commonly implied by the noun or pronoun. In the following specimen of conjugating verbs, the persons, number, and actions or tenses are expressed by different words, with very few variations of terminations. The Modes of Conjugating VERBS. Numbers. Persons. The present, Absolute. Conditional. 1 { I { am, be, have, do, } may, can, would, { { love, teach, read, } should, or ought, { { hear. } to be, have, do, love, { { } teach, read, hear. { { { are, be, have, } Singular. 2 { you { do love, } { { teach, read, hear. } { { { is, hath, doth, } { he { loveth or loves, } 3 { { teaches, reads, } { { hears. } { { are, be, have, do, } 1 { we, { love, teach, } { { read, hear. } Plural. 2 { ye, 3 { they, past, Absolute. Conditional. 1 { I } was, have been, } might, could, would, { } had, did, } should, ought to have been, { } loved, taught or } had, done, loved, taught or { } teached, read, heard. } teached, read, heard. { { Singular. 2 { you { { { { was, or hath been, } { he { had, done, loved, } 3 { { taught, read, heard. } { { { were, or have been, } 1 { we, { had, done, loved, } { { taught, read, heard. } Plural. 2 { ye, 3 { they, and future tenses. Absolute. Conditional.