I've been doing some research on the archaic English lately and so far what I understand is that:
1- Singular second-person (Thou) regular verbs get "-st" or "-est" at the end and there are irregular verbs e.g Dost, Hast, Wast, Wilt, Shalt...
2 - Singular third-person (He) regular verbs get "-th" and "-eth" at the end and the modals remain the same with exception of "do" and "have" that change to "doth" and "hath"
3 - I also read that these do not apply to past form and past participle form of the verbs, and that they apply to simple present.
(Correct me if I'm wrong in any part)
Now here are my questions:
What about "can" and "can not", will they change for second-person singular or no? If yes, how is it written?
For negative form of singular third and second-person verbs, is adding not after them the only way to write them or there are other ways too? If there is/are, What is it/are they?
About second and third-person singular of present progressive, present perfect and present perfect continuous, do statement 1 and 2 apply to them? If yes, will they be written as:
"You are playing = Thou art playing, You were eating = Thou wert eating"
"She has eaten = She hath eaten, You have done = thou hast done"
"He has been consuming = He hath been consuming, You have been reading = Thou hast been doing"
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