[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. They were engaged in building a snow fort. The participle building, like a noun, follows the preposition in, as the principal word in the phrase; and, like a verb, it takes the object complement fort.
—— by foretelling storms. —— by helping others. —— on approaching the house. ——- in catching fish.
Use the following phrases as subjects.
Walking in the garden ——. His writing that letter ——. Breaking a
promise ——.
Use each of the following phrases in a complex sentence. Let some of the dependent clauses be used as adjectives, and some, as adverbs.