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The term "conjugation" has been employed in literature with both precise grammatical definitions and more expansive, even metaphorical, connotations. In many authoritative grammar texts by Farley and Kittredge, the word is used to detail the systematic variation of a verb's forms—addressing aspects like voice, mood, and tense as seen in examples that explain the conjugation of verbs such as "to be," "find," and "walk" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Besides these detailed accounts, one finds its use extended to the classification of verbs in classical studies, such as the "Third Conjugation" in Latin [9] and a skeletal presentation of forms in historical documents [10]. Additionally, the term takes on a broader, more poetic role—illustrated by Carlyle’s evocative reference to the "infinite conjugation of the verb To do" to capture the passage of time and action [11]—while other texts guide readers to tables that arrange potential phrases in conjugational forms [12] or hint at further explorations of linguistic structures [13].
  1. CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  2. Conjugation of the Strong Verb Find
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  3. Conjugation of the Weak Verb Walk Present
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  4. CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BE INDICATIVE MOOD
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  5. The following table gives the conjugation of the verb strike in the active and passive of the six tenses:— Active Voice Passive Voice Present
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  6. [ no ending ] Conjugation of the Present and the Past 225.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  7. Conjugation of the Copula
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  8. The inflection of a verb is called its conjugation ( § 53 ).
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  9. (Third Conjugation.)
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  10. Present, aorist, and reduplicated perfect, as forming a skeleton conjugation, 128 .
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  11. It is the past, the present, and the future; what was done, what is doing, what will be done; "the infinite conjugation of the verb To do ."
    — from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
  12. Potential phrases may be arranged in tables of conjugation, like that on pp. 108–110 .
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  13. For conjugation of oler see grammars.
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

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