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 110 TELOOOOO GRAMMAR IMPERATIVE MOOD. common. "?5r ...... buynotthou, common. VERBAL PARTICIPLE. t... without buying, or without having bought. RELATIVE PARTICIPLE. that does not, did not, or will not buy. VERBAL NOUN. the not buying. SECOND CONJUGATION IN

349 All verbs having the root in cOw-form the affirmative aorist and imperative, either in the manner explained in the table rule 312, or by changing cX&>&> of the affirmative aorist into >, and cCfotS of the affirmative imperative into & ; and, in these cases, if the vowel preceding cfcco be 9, it must be changed into O ; thus, from "^cOw to do comes ' : ScX&>&>;& O r ^^jfo I do, did, or shall do. q or "^>efs&o let us do; but the root tf&c&d, which has 9 preceding , makes &?& or C2&e&>;$>, and tfcld&>SS& or ^S^cS'sSM, never and ^^ifsSM.

350 In the common dialect, roots in cs&o f orm the second person of the affirmative imperative by changing the cs&> into ox> ; thus, "^cSSoo to do makes "Sooo do thou.

351 Roots in csfio, when they affix 9 ^= or -=*, or terminations beginning with these vowels, as shewn in the table, rule 312, invariably change the final syllable ctf into & or <& ; thus, the root "3ctf / ^ when ifc addg 9 tQ form the past verbal participle, makes "^ or ^ A C y^ done, and when it adds &&> to forra the future, it makes "^"^2S^3 or ^"?S^> 5 & c . never -3>^& &c. when followed by & to form the verbal noun, and by ?5b i n the third person singular of the affirmative aorist, such roots change the cOoo ] n t o Joo at option

N. B. The verb S^^ has two irregular forms in imperative, viz. ^or ^^ Jw ^ ^ OM ^o3& or