+Direction+.—Parse five of the sentences you have written.
+Model+.—Poland was dismembered.
+Parsing+.—Poland is a noun because ——; was dismembered is a verb because it asserts action.
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LESSON 12.
MODIFIED SUBJECT.
ADJECTIVES.
+Introductory Hints+.—The subject noun and the predicate verb are not always or often the whole of the structure that we call the sentence, though they are the underlying timbers that support the rest of the verbal bridge. Other words may be built upon them.
We learned in Lesson 8 that things resemble one another and differ from one another. They resemble and they differ in what we call their qualities. Things are alike whose qualities are the same, as, two oranges having the same color, taste, and odor. Things are unlike, as an orange and an apple, whose qualities are different.
It is by their qualities, then, that we know things and group them.