. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . art of the Grammar,and before they come to the Verbs Regular, tomake a particular study of the Auxiliary Verbs :not only for the excellent reasons set forth in Tristram Shandy, but also to avoid those awk-ward mistakes in which the Comicalities of theVerbs, or Verbal Comicalities, chiefly consist. Did it rain to-morrow ? asked Monsieur Gre-nouille. Yes it was ! replied Monsieur Crapaud. We propose the following as an auxiliary modeof conjugating verbs: — I love to roam on thecrested foam. Thou lovest to roam
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . art of the Grammar,and before they come to the Verbs Regular, tomake a particular study of the Auxiliary Verbs :not only for the excellent reasons set forth in Tristram Shandy, but also to avoid those awk-ward mistakes in which the Comicalities of theVerbs, or Verbal Comicalities, chiefly consist. Did it rain to-morrow ? asked Monsieur Gre-nouille. Yes it was ! replied Monsieur Crapaud. We propose the following as an auxiliary modeof conjugating verbs: — I love to roam on thecrested foam. Thou lovest to roam on the crestedfoam, He loves to roam on the crested foam, Welove to roam on the crested foam. Ye or you loveto roam on the crested foam. They love to roamon the crested foam, &c. These words, if setto music, might serve for a grammatical glee, andwould, at all events, be ])roductive of mirth. ETYMOLOGY. 97 The Auxiliary Verbs, too, are very useful whena peculiar emphasis is required: as, I shall giveyou a drubbing ! Will you ? I know atrick worth two of that. Do you, though?. It might as the Quaker said to the Yankee,who wanted to know what his name might be; it might be Beelzebub, but it is not. Now we may as well say what we have to sayabout the conjugation of regular verbs active. 98 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. SECTION VI. THE CONJUGATION OF REGILAR VERBS ACTIVE. Regular Verbs Active are known by theirforming their imperfect tense of the indicativemood, and their perfect participle, by adding to theverb ed, or d only when the verb ends in e: as, PRESENT. IMPERFECT. PERF. PARTICir. I reckon. I reckoned. Reckoned. I realise. I realised. Realised. Here should follow the conjugation of the regu-lar active verb, or, as a Cockney Romeo would say,the regular torturing verb, To Love; but we havealready assigned a good reason for omitting it;besides which we have to say, that we think it averb highly unfit for conjugation by youth, as ittends to put ideas into their heads which they
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