Exercise
Pick out the participles, and tell whether active or passive,
imperfect, perfect, or perfect definite. If pure participles, tell to
what word they belong; if adjectives, tell what words they modify.
1. The change is a large process, accomplished within a large and
corresponding space, having, perhaps, some central or equatorial line,
but lying, like that of our earth, between certain tropics, or limits
widely separated.
2. I had fallen under medical advice the most misleading that it is
possible to imagine.
3. These views, being adopted in a great measure from my mother, were
naturally the same as my mother's.
4. Endowed with a great command over herself, she soon obtained an
uncontrolled ascendency over her people.
5. No spectacle was more adapted to excite wonder.
6. Having fully supplied the demands of nature in this respect, I
returned to reflection on my situation.
7. Three saplings, stripped of their branches and bound together at
their ends, formed a kind of bedstead.
8. This all-pervading principle is at work in our system,--the
creature warring against the creating power.
9. Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.
10. Nothing of the kind having been done, and the principles of this
unfortunate king having been distorted,... try clemency.
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