+Direction+.—Recast these sentences, making the reference of the participle clear, and punctuating correctly:—
+Model+.—Climbing to the top of the hill the Atlantic ocean was seen.
Incorrect because it appears that the ocean did the climbing.
Climbing to the top of the hill, we saw the Atlantic ocean.
1. Entering the next room was seen a marble statue of Apollo. 2. By giving him a few hints he was prepared to do the work well. 3. Desiring an early start the horse was saddled by five o'clock.
+Direction+.—Compose sentences in which each of these three participles shall be used as an adjective modifier, as the principal word in a prepositional phrase, as the principal word in a phrase used as a subject or as an object complement, as a mere adjective, as a mere noun, and in an absolute phrase:—
Buzzing, leaping, waving.
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LESSON 40.
VERBS AS NOUNS—INFINITIVES.
+Introductory Hints+.—I came to see you. Here the verb see, like the participle, lacks asserting power—I to see asserts nothing. See, following the preposition to, [Footnote: For the discussion of to with the infinitive, see Lesson 134.] names the act and is completed by you, and so does duty as a noun and as a verb. In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name—some calling both gerunds, and others calling both infinitives. It differs from this participle in form, and in following only the preposition to. Came to see=came for seeing.