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OF VERBS.
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therefore very simple; (Symbol missingTelugu characters) having beaten makes in the first form (Symbol missingTelugu characters) I have beaten, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) thou hast beaten &c. The third person of the first form is (Symbol missingTelugu characters) he, she, or it has beaten, the (Symbol missingTelugu characters) of (Symbol missingTelugu characters) being dropped when the termination (Symbol missingTelugu characters), beginning with a vowel, is added to it. In the second form, (Symbol missingTelugu characters) having beaten, makes (Symbol missingTelugu characters) &c. I have beaten &c. Both of these forms are strictly grammatical, and both are equally in common use.

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All the terminations added to the root, to compose the two forms of this tense, commence with vowels; the final (Symbol missingTelugu characters) of the root is therefore dropped, when they are added to it; thus, the root (Symbol missingTelugu characters) makes (Symbol missingTelugu characters) or (Symbol missingTelugu characters), I will beat. The second form of this tense is used by the vulgar only. The first person singular of the second form of this tense must not be confounded with the third person singular in the first form of the past tense. (Symbol missingTelugu characters) I will beat is entirely distinct, in meaning, from (Symbol missingTelugu characters) he, she, or it has beaten; but the only difference in writing or pronouncing them, is, that the (Symbol missingTelugu characters) before (Symbol missingTelugu characters) is long in the former, and short in the latter. It is of much importance to the reader to understand, that the two forms of the future tense are seldom used; the present or the aorist being commonly substituted for them.

AORIST.

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The formation of the affirmative aorist from the root, and of the negative aorist from the infinitive, by the addition of the affixes shewn in the table, is so simple, as scarcely to require explanation: the root (Symbol missingTelugu characters) makes it's affirmative aorist (Symbol missingTelugu characters), I do beat, have beaten, or will beat; and from the infinitive (Symbol missingTelugu characters) comes (Symbol missingTelugu characters), I do not beat, have not beaten, or will not beat.

IMPERATIVE, PARTICIPLES, AND VERBAL NOUNS.

AFFIRMATIVE VERBS.

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The affirmative imperative is formed by adding to the root (Symbol missingTelugu characters) or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) for the 2d person singular; (Symbol missingTelugu characters), or in the common dialect (Symbol missingTelugu characters), for the 1st person plural; and (Symbol missingTelugu characters) or (Symbol missingTelugu characters) for the 2d person plural: the last mentioned termination, in the common dialect, is added to the infinitive, instead of the root; thus, from

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