The _sun_ warms the _earth_.
The _sun_ is a luminous _body_.

Moon, oak, fire, whiskey.




LESSON 48.

SUBJECT OR COMPLEMENT MODIFIED BY A PARTICIPLE.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--You have learned, in the preceding Lessons,
that a _quality_ may be _assumed_ as belonging to a thing; as, _white
chalk_, or that it may be _asserted_ of it; as, _Chalk is white_. An
_action_, also, may be _assumed_ as belonging to something; as, _Peter
turning_, or it may be _asserted;_ as, Peter _turned_. In the expression,
_Peter, turning, said_, what word expresses an action as _assumed_, and
which _asserts_ an action? Each pupil may give an example of an action
asserted and of an action assumed; as, Corn _grows_, corn _growing_; geese
_gabble_; geese _gabbling_.

This form of the verb, which merely _assumes_ the act, being, or state, is
called the +Participle+.

When the words _growing_ and _gabbling_ are placed before the nouns, thus:
_growing corn, gabbling geese_, they tell simply the kind of corn and the
kind of geese, and are therefore _adjectives_.

When _the_ or some other adjective is placed before these words, and a