+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.
+Model+.-- ----_in building a snow fort_.
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