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—.86 THE VERB.—VOICE. § 41§ 40. INFLECTION OF VERBS.134.—To the inflection of Verbs belong Voices,Moods, Tenses, Numbers, and Persons.1. The Voices, in Latin, are two, Active andPassive.2. The Moods are four, tlie Indicative, Subjunctive,Imperative, and Infinitive.3. The Tenses are six, the Present, Imperfect,Perfect, Pluperfect, Future, and Future-Perfect.4. The Numbers are two, Singular and Plural.5. The Persons are three, First, Second, andTliird.6. Besides these, to the Verb belong, Participles,Gerunds, and Supines.7. The Conjugation of a verb is the arrangementof its different moods,- tenses, &c, accordingto a certain order. Of these, in Latin, there arethe First, Second, Tliird, and Fourthfmr, calledJonjugations. 1 84-1—3Obs. A few verbs in Latin are of more than one conjugation, and a few have some of their parts belonging to oneconjugation, and others to another.§ 41. VOICE.135. Voice is a particular form of the verbwhich shows the relation of the subject, or thingspoken of, to the action expressed by the verb.The transitive verb, in Latin, has two voices,called the Active and the Passive.1 The Active Voice represents the subject of