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FINITE AND NON-FINITE VERBS.

1) List (by line-number and in order) the verb-forms in the following passages, identifying them as finite or non-finite; if they are non-finite, specify whether they are present participle, past participle, or infinitive (you don't have to give more detail than this, but the answers give full descriptions). 1A: Northanger Abbey 1. 'If you can persuade Henry to marry, you must have the address 2. of a Frenchwoman. All that English abilities can do has been tried already. 3. I have three very particular friends who have all been dying for him 4. in their turn; and the pains which they, their mothers (very clever women), 5. as well as my dear aunt and myself, have taken to reason, coax, or trick 6. him into marriage, is inconceivable! He is the most horrible flirt 7. that can be imagined.' 1B: Tristram Shandy 1. A WHITE BEAR! Very well. Have I ever seen one? 2. Might I ever have seen one? Am I ever to see one? 3. Ought I ever to have seen one? Or can I ever see one? 4. . . . If I should ever see a white bear, what should I say? 5. . . . Did my father, mother, uncle, aunt, brothers or sisters, ever see a white bear? 6. . . . How would they behave? How would the white bear have behaved?

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