+To the Teacher+.--Select some of the preceding exercises, and require the
pupils to write the parsing of all the verbs. See Lessons 34, 35, 48, 49,
and 56.

+Model for Written Parsing--Verbs+.--_The Yankee, selling his farm, wanders
away to seek new lands_.

CLASSIFICATION. MODIFICATIONS. SYNTAX.

_Verbs_. _Kind_. _Voice_. _Mode_. _Tense_. _Num_. _Per_.

*selling Pr. Par., Ir., Tr. Ac. --- --- --- --- Mod. of _Yankee_.
wanders Reg., Int. --- Ind. Pres. Sing. 3d. Pred. of "
*seek Inf, Ir., Tt, Ac. --- " --- --- Prin. word in phrase
Mod. of _wanders_.

[Footnote *: Participles and Infinitives have no _person_ or _number_.]




LESSON 98.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

Participles sometimes partake of the nature of the noun, while they retain
the nature of the verb.

Build each of the following phrases into a sentence, and explain the nature
of the participle.