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. 1861 Excerpt: ... also that we can say, "The tree hears better fruit than if it had been grafted, -" and, having gone into the past, we still say, "The tree bore better fruit than if it had been grafted."? 291. The future-perfect tense represents something as finished or ended by a certain future time. Ex.--" The house, when finished, ...
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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. 1861 Excerpt: ... also that we can say, "The tree hears better fruit than if it had been grafted, -" and, having gone into the past, we still say, "The tree bore better fruit than if it had been grafted."? 291. The future-perfect tense represents something as finished or ended by a certain future time. Ex.--" The house, when finished, will have cost a fortune."? A tense is sometimes used emphatically, to deny the same state or act of the person or thing in a neighboring tense. Ex, --" He has been rich." But he is not so uow. "He had been rich." But he was not so then. "But you viU come to this." Though you are not in such a state now.? The present, the past, and the future, are sometimes called the absolute lenses; and the perfect, the pluperfect, and the future-perfect, the relative tenses, for these generally relate from one point of time to another. Sometimes the prominent idea in the absolute tenses is, the existence of a certain act or state; in the relative tenses, the completion of the act or state. I Since the perfect passive participle generally implies completion, a passive verb, in the absolute tenses, is often equivalent in time to the corresponding relative tenses of the active voice. Ex.--My rose-bush is destroyed;' "Some one has destroyed my rose-bush." "Mv coat mil then be finished /" "The tailor will then have finished my coat." "Corn appears to be gathered;" "The fanners appear tt have gathered their corn." Hence such forms as may be loved, may be taken, must be loved, must be taken, is taught, &c., are ambiguous. "He is well taught"--He has been well educated, or, He is now receiving good instruction. "The fleet must have been cap...
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