The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-01-25
lenses and Auxiliaries.


should be used, may or can 10 denote prob
ability, aud might, could. would or should
to express uncertainty. Shall is also used
ia the sense Of must, and should in that Of
ought The verb in the leading clause be
ing The keynote, the rest must be in harmO-
ny. OF at least not inconsistent With It. Re
member too that general and vell-kn0wn
truths are expressed in the present tense.
1. Do you suppose could get it before it
went to rooss. Here could is too timid 10
catch chicken and should be changed to
can, while went not being in harmony with
can should be changed to goes)
=. 1t is claimed that petroleum can mot
could be rendered inexPlosive.
3 II is 10 be hoped that il Is precedent
for all future time in this county. we hope
Tor what may Be, not what Isl
l. No observer can fail to have seen that
the Homestead trouble had an unfavorsble
effect on business. Nobody can fail to have
seen, the opportunity being past, though be
may or can have fliled to see-)
5. 1.-THE force-hill we're tnot vas the Is
sue on which his election depends mot de-
pended) be would promptly hasten to swal-
low it,
Similar examples for correction
l. Which he asks the farmer TO sign.
that there win be no mistake in the plsee.
?. Gov. Brown bad intended that the
appointment should have beep the frst act
OF his administration.
5. Who would have thought that the
staid old Government Post Office would
have caught the Infection
4. At last said 10 myself that if fall
sgain there was no help, for / had not
strength 10 regain my perch.
). We could not make this offer did We
not know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on.
Speaking OF the lenses of the indicative,
three Of them represented By l. 5, s.. CORE
spond with the three divisions OF time. The
auxiliarieso OF the present and the past, used
only for emphasis or in asking questions,
are do and did. and of the future shall and
Will. The auxiliaries Of the prior present
and the prior past q and A. are have ard
had Besides these be is used as an anxil-
iary in the progressive and passive forms
throughout The examples under this head
have been arranged TO correspond with the
number Of the lenses, as will be seen after
the corrections are made.
1. II Columbus looked anything like
some Of the pictures Of him the newspapers
are printing it was not strange that he
should have been imprisoned. It is not
strange that he was. Should have been Is a
German idiom.)
>. A good deal of money is and IS being
invested in fine horse flesh, especially by
young men in this vicinity. (Has been
and-in this vicinity, especially by
g. l have been told last week when did
this very thing on the death Of Cardinal
Manning that this was the duty of the press.
q was told-is the duty.l
4. Another balloon. same size, was sent
up on Monday evening, but nothing has
been heard of it when this IS written. (of
hesame size-had been heard-was written }
8. God only asks US 20 co what We can,
aud when We have done that it is not long
till we find we can do more. (Bat when
it will not be long before We shall find
that-)
Additional examples for correction;
l. Government officials should see TO it
that the slayers Of Hosietler should be prop
erly dealt with.
?. Mrs. John Stuff is in Philadelphia
for the past two months for the treatment of
a cancer, from which she has been great
sufferer.
5. The most cases where death has re-
snlted from the grip It has been found that
the kidneys have been seriously diseased.
4 Had it not have been for both the
community would YET be lavishing its shek-
els for something it did not need.
5. Perhaps a day viii come when a pa
triotic holiday is mot looked upon as an
occasion for bestial indulgence.
The past tense is often improperly used
instead of the prior past, where difereat
events are spoken Of, one Of which was prior
in the order Of time. The poet says 1t
rained all night the day ! left. The weather
it was dry" Changed to The weather had
been dry" it viii not only be grammatical
but probable as well. Change a verb in
each sentence to the prior past:
/. How the fire originated is not known,
as there was no fire in the building.
,. he was employed in one Of the iron
mills and oVer-eKerted himself
3. When their guns were empty German
was wounded in the cheek and neck.
4. walked out into the hall and saw
one of the most piiiful creatures l ever
saw.
). She leil the house where employed as
servant with her lover Monday night.
The prior past participle, whose sign IS
having or having been, has similar com
plant to make. After he had written the
letter and Having written the letter" the
first expressed by the verb and the other by
the participle, haze practically the sams
meaning, and in such cases this participle
should be used instead Of the present.
Examples for the prior past participle:
/. He charged the president with being
a leech on the treasury for sixteen years.
,. lie confessed 70 mardering his part
ner in 0atario ten years ago.
3. Wensler was one Of the pioneers of
the Black Hills, going there in 1875.
4. Another company is proposed, the ar
tieles o: incorporation being filed on We'd
nesday.
;. He did not know that Lemon had
done SO, nor did he know of anybody else
doing sucha thing.
When the ininitiye is no. used merely as
the name Of an action, bsing dependent on
some other word in the sentence it has no
reference 10 time and should be Of the sim
pie form Of the present tense, except when
preceded by ought, as This ought We to
have done All these sentences will look
much better for the correction:
l. It would not have been safe for a
stranger TO have passed through that coun-
try
>, There could have been but one mo-
tive to have prompted the killing of Ms.
Barnaby.
,. Itwas not my good luck to have been
selected on tha; Committee, having been re-
jecied on the score Of my youth
4. President HsTrison had intended to
have appointed John A. Kasson of Iowa
). Might it not have been candid to have
I stated the fact?