PARSING OF VERBS.

To parse a verb is to state its _class_, its _conjugation_, its _voice_,

its _mode_, its _tense_, its _person_, and _number_, and its _subject_.

=Model.=—The boys _have broken_ the window.

_Have broken_, a verb, transitive; strong conjugation (break, broke,

broken); active voice; indicative mode; present perfect tense, third

person; plural number, agreeing with its subject _boys_.

=Model.=—If they _help_ my friend I _shall be_ glad.

_Help_, a verb, transitive; weak conjugation (help, helped, helped);

active voice; subjunctive mode; present tense; third person; plural

number, agreeing with its subject _they_.

_Shall be_, a verb, intransitive; strong conjugation (am, was, been);

indicative mode; future tense; first person; singular number, agreeing

with its subject _I_.

=Model.=—_Being provided_ with tools, they _planted_ a row of stakes

within their palisade, _to form_ a double fence.

_Being provided_, a present participle; passive form, modifying _they_.

_Planted_, a verb, transitive; weak conjugation (plant, planted,

planted); active voice; indicative mode; past tense; third person;

plural number, agreeing with its subject _they_.

_To form_, a present infinitive; active voice; used as an adverb to

modify _planted_.

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