(a) One is a numeral adjective of the cardinal kind, limiting the noun hundred understood.

One hundred is a numeral adjective, limiting the noun thousand understood.

One hundred thousand is a numeral adjective, limiting the noun persons understood.

(b) Persons, understood, is the subject of could be seated, expressed.

(c) Persons, expressed, is the subject of are, understood.

19. One hundred and fifty Ohio State Reform-Farm Sunday-school scholars were in town yesterday (a).

(a) Scholars is a noun; com., 3d, plu., masc., nom., and subj. of the verb were.-Rule VIII.

Sunday is a noun used as an adjective to qualify the noun school.-Rule VII.

Sunday-school is a compound noun used as an adjective to qualify the noun scholars.-Rule VII.

Farm is a noun; com., 3d, sing., neut., and constitutes the basis of the compound noun reform-farm.

Reform is a noun used as an adjective to qualify the noun farm.-Rule VII.

Reform-Farm is a compound noun used as an adjective to qualify the complex noun Sunday-school scholars.-Rule VII.

State is a noun used as an adjective to qualify the compound noun reform-farm.-Rule VII.

Ohio is a noun used as an adjective to qualify the complex noun state reform-farm.--Rule VII.

Ohio State Reform-Farm is a complex adjective, qualifying the complex noun Sunday-school scholars.-Rule VII.

One is a numeral adjective of the cardinal kind, and qualifies the noun hundred.-Rule VII.

Hundred is a noun used as the basis of the complex numeral adjective one hundred.

One hundred is a complex numeral adjective, and is a part of the compound numeral one hundred and fifty.

Fifty is a simple numeral, and is a part of the compound numeral one hundred and fifty.

One hundred and fifty is a compound numeral adjective, qualifying the complex noun Ohio State Reform-Farm Sunday-school scholars.-Rule VII.

ARTICLE XIII.

THE PARTICIPLES.

Section 1.

The present active participle.

EXAMPLES.

1. I saw the sun rising (a). 2. I see the moon setting. 3. I heard the wind roaring. 4. I felt the earth shaking.

5. The king, extending his scepter, commanded the suppliant to rise.

6. Nouns denoting males are of the masculine gender. 7. We heard the stones rumbling along the sides of the descent.

8. The horses sank upon their knees, dismounting (b) their riders (c).

9. We gazed upon the clouds marshaling themselves like bloody giants in the sky.

10. A friendly voice was that old, old clock, As it stood in the corner smiling;

And blessed the time

With a merry chime,

The wintry hours beguiling.

11. Two guests sat enjoying the fire, that burned

bright;

And smiling in silence, with tranquil delight,

They listened to hear the wind roar.

12. The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide-rolling (d), foaming high, and tumbling to the shore.

MODELS FOR PARSING.

(a) Rising is the pres. act. part. of the irreg. intrans. verb to rise, and relates to sun as its subject.-Rule XI.

(b) Dismounting is the pres. act. part. of the reg. trans. verb to dismount, and relates to horses as its subject.-Rule XI.

(c) Riders is a noun, etc.; obj., and governed by the participle dismounting.-Rule III.

(d) Wide-rolling is an adjective, composed of the participle rolling and the adverb wide, and qualifies the noun waves.-Rule VII.

Section 2.

The present active participle used in connection with the verb TO BE.

EXAMPLES.

1. The moon is rising (a). 2. I am writing. 3. We are reading. 4. She was singing. 4. She was singing. 5. They were walking. 6. I have been sleeping.

7. James has been walking. 8. He had been traveling. 9. The boys will be playing. 10. The men will have been laboring.

11. The girls may be sewing. 12. The women may have been knitting. 13. Thomas might be studying. 14. The men might have been laboring.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Is rising is a verb; irreg., intrans., indic., pres., progressive form, 3d, sing., and agrees with its subject moon.—Rule IX.

Section 3.

The present active participle used as an adjective.

EXAMPLES.

1. I saw the rising (a) sun.

2. I viewed the setting moon.

3. I heard the roaring wind.

4. We walked through sloping woodlands.

5. Cataracts poured down from the lowering firma

ment.

6. The quivering beasts reared and snorted.

7. The cataract became a falling ocean.

8. The indications of an approaching tempest became

manifest.

9. There was not a quiver among the sleeping waters, to tell of the coming storm.

10. The story was too touching to be soon forgotten.

11. But in his whole history there is no circumstance so striking and interesting as his behavior to his brethren, who had sold him into slavery-Blair.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

(a) Rising is the pres. act. part. of the irreg. intrans. verb to rise, and is here used as an adjective to qualify the noun sun.— Rule VII.

OTHERWISE.

Rising is a participial adjective, qualifying the noun sun.— Rule VII.

Section 4.

Alternate sentences in which the same word is used first as a present participial noun, and then as a noun simply.

EXAMPLES.

1. Sails and ropes are used in rigging a ship.

2. The wind whistled through the rigging of the ship. 3. The bully succeeded in flooring his antagonist.

4. The carpenter bought two thousand feet of flooring. 5. Jacob, in blessing the sons of Joseph, placed his hands upon their heads.

6. Health is a great blessing.

7. The clerk is engaged in footing up the account.

8. Both parties were placed on an equal footing.

9. The general succeeded in heading the march of the enemy.

10. I read the heading of the chapter.

11. He found much difficulty in understanding the subject.

12. The understanding is the faculty by which we are enabled to apprehend the objects of knowledge.-Watts.

13. In beginning the day, we should implore Divine guidance and protection.

14. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

15. James is engaged in writing a letter.

16. Mary's writing is very beautiful.

17. Thomas is engaged in reading the history of England.

18. I have seen a different reading of this text.