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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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