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I do not remember Shakspeare's [[caring?]] the [[land?]] but the verb is close onto err & hear. 

The formation of tenses is to my mind one of the simplest of things. One verb holding another will make either a past or a future & after they [[strikethrough]] is [[?stirkethrough]]are fully established by usage a past tense used [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] where you know by the sense it does not refer to past time will make a conditional or subjunctive. 

The Latin tenses [[strikethrough]] in the regular [[/strikethrough]] were all I believe formed with to be the rest of the verb [[strikethrough]] quo [[/strikethrough]] or rather the other one being its object, but it is not singular in this respect as you have believed. French Je suis allé j'all-'ai the same tense while custom has [[strikethrough]] introduced a [[/strikethrough]] formed a delicate shade of difference. All reciprocating verbs in French & Italian are yet conjugated only with to be je me suis lavé & mene sono doluto because I caught cold in my head but I havent got it now. [[strikethrough]] It only [[/strikethrough]] The Spanish which has [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] hugged closest to the Latin conserves the verb to be in its  simple conjugations more than any other of these you mention. I am gone, I am returned, he is come back  I was [[strikethrough]] drunk [[/strikethrough]] loved, I got [[strikethrough]] drunk [[/strikethrough]] loved is all good English & a Spaniard may say I held or possessed loved. What a fortune is in store for an English Grammar man who will discover that to get forms a new voice to which he may invent a Greek or