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1. The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved.
2. Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formation of the preterit, and its participle.
3. If did is itself a contraction of doed, the regular preterit, which is probable, whence comes ed in this word?
4. Grammarians allege that the termination of the regular preterit tense, ed, is a corruption of did.
5. The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.