Huber Gray Buehler

Practical Exercises in English Huber Gray Buehler

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...is properly used to denote action which is completed at the time denoted, by the principal verb: as, "I am glad to have seen Niagara Falls;" "He felt sorry to have hurt your feelings." Exception.--Ought, must, need, and should (in the sense of "ought") have no distinctive form to denote past time; with these verbs present "Foundations," pp. 93-98. This is sometimes called the " Law of the Sequence of Tenses." time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the present tense, past time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the perfect tense: as, " You ought to #o,""You ought to have gone;" "He should be careful," "He should have been careful." A similar change from the present to the perfect infinitive is found after could and might in some of their uses: as, "I could go," "I could have gone;" "You might answer," "You might have answered." EXERCISE XLVII. Distinguish in meaning between the following:--1. The house stood (has stood) twenty years. 2. The messenger came (has come). 3. He should stay (have stayed). 4. It rained (has rained) for two weeks. 5. tie was believed to live (to have lived) a happy life. 6. He ought to go (to have gone). 7. He deposited (has deposited) the money in bank.. 8. I am sure I could go (have gone) alone. 9. Yesterday at three o'clock I completed (had completed) my work. 10. He must be (have been) weary. 11. He appeared to be (have been) crying. 12. He need not go. He need not have gone. 13. The horse jumped (had jumped) into the field, and began (had begun) to eat the corn. 14. Achilles is said to be (have been) buried at the foot of this hill. EXERCISE XLVIII. Which of the italicized forms is right t--1. Where did you say Pike's Peak is (was) 1 2. I intended to do (to have done) it...