Accidence—The Table Manners of Language 105 form, as in placed or dreamt. This corresponds to the German teiminal -te (schnarchte = snored) or -ete (redete = spoke). In Gothic, the oldest known Teutonic language, we meet such forms as sohda (I sought), and soktdedum (we sought) Some philologists believe that this is an agglutination of the same root as German tun, and English do with the verb root It is as if we said in English / seekdid (= / did seek)) or m German ich suchetat In some hayseed districts a similar combination (e g, he did say = he said) is quite customary The example below shows the old English past of the verb andswenan (to answer) and how it may have come about by contraction with dyde (did) if this view is correct Sing. J II [ill Pluial (all persons) andswenan + dyde andswerian 4- dydest andswerian + dyde andswenan 4- dydon = andswerede = andsweredest == andswerede = andsweredon The English verb of Harold at the Battle of Hastings had personal flexions of the past as of the present forms All such personal flexions corresponding to a particular class of time or aspect derivatives make up what is called a single tense. In Slavonic, Celtic,, and Teutonic languages, as in English, there are two simple tenses, corresponding more or less to our present and past. Some of the ancient Indo-European languages and the modern descendants of Latin have a much more elaborate system of derivatives signifying differences of time or aspect. The following table shows that Latin verbs have six forms of tense flexion, each with its own six flexions of person and number, making up six tenses, respectively called (i) piesent, (n) past imperfect^ (ui) past perfect^ (iv) pluperfect^ (v) futwe, and (vi) future perfect French, D fc IATIN FRLNCH ANG10-AMERICAN (i) amo j'aunc I love I am loving (u) amabam j'aunais I used to love I did love I was loving (111) amavi j'aunai I loved j'ai ann6 I (have) loved (xv) amaveram j'avais aim£ I had loved (v) amabo j'aimcrai I shall love (vi) amavero j'aurai aun£ I shall have loved