Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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preposition after them, thus: _The growing of the corn, the gabbling of the
geese_, they are simply the _names_ of actions, and are therefore _nouns_. Let each pupil give an example of a verb asserting an action, and change it to express:-- 1st, An _assumed_ action; 2d, A permanent _quality;_ 3d, The _name_ of an action. _Participles_ may be completed by _objects_ and _attributes_. +Analysis and Parsing+. +Model+.--_Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again_. Truth | will rise ==========|============= \cru | \again \ shed -------- \to \ earth \------- +Explanation of the Diagram+.--In this diagram, the line standing for the principal word of the participial phrase is broken; one part slants, and the other is horizontal. This shows that the participle _crushed_ is used like an adjective to modify _Truth_, and yet retains the nature of a verb, expressing an action received by truth. |
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