Excerpt from Exercises on the Irregular and Defective Greek Verbs The following exercises, on an important branch of the Greek Accidence, are intended for boys who have already a fair knowledge of the Grammar, but may bebenefited by giving more Special attention for a time to this particular portion of it. The object aimed at is to familiarize the learner with the chief Irregular and defective/verbal forms of most frequent occurrence, the accurate use of which is so essential for composition in Greek Prose. No Verbs, and no parts of Verbs (with the exception of a very few poetic forms Specified), are admitted among those with which the Exercises deal, for which there is not authority in the Attic Prose authors of the best period. Each Exercise is intended to exemplify all the principal parts of the Verb, while at the same time some of the idiomatic uses have been introduced. The order adopted follows the classification of Curtius in his Grammar; and the Third Edition of Veitch's work has been consulted throughout. Prefixed to each Exercise are the Tenses formed from the true stem; the remainder, which are formed from these, being omitted: (for their formation see Parry's Greek Grammar, A note is added where Compound Verbs are to be employed, and attention is drawn to those parts of the simple Verb which never occur. For the chief words required a Vocabulary is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.