§154. Voice, Mood, Tense, Person, Number
Through its conjugation the Verb expresses Voice, Mood, Tense, Person, and Number.
a. The Voices are two: Active and Passive.
b. The Moods are four: Indicative, Subjunctive, Imperative, and Infinitive.1
c. The Tenses are six, viz.:—
- For continued action, Present, Imperfect, Future.
- For completed action, Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect.
The Indicative Mood has all six tenses, but the Subjunctive has no future or future perfect, and the Imperative has only the present and the future. The Infinitive has the present, perfect, and future.
d. The Persons are three: First, Second, and Third.
e. The Numbers are two: Singular and Plural.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.