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320 THE MODERN PERIOD. [Par. 584.
ACTIVE,

Simple
or
Indefinite.

Incomplete
or
Continuous.

-- i

Present
Past
Present
Past

(he) will help
(I) shall
(lie) would help
(I) should el
' [f may help
C.might help
help

CONSEQUENT CON
(he) will,}
(I) shall be helping
(lie) would t be help(I) should ing
MooD OF
' a may be
= I helping
I might be
helping
IMlPERA
be helping

I

1 Same as
The Passive Voice is easily formed from the Verb
"to be," by placing after it the Passive Participle
" helped."

It has no pretensions to be called a Passive " Voice," and
would not have been called so but for a desire to ape the
terms of Latin Grammar. The Latin Passive Voice has
distinctive Inflections, and deserves its name. The English
"Voice" is a mere imposture.