HOW TO PARSE ARTICLES.
198. In parsing the article, tell—
(1) What word it limits.
(2) Which of the above uses it has.
Exercise.
Parse the articles in the following:—
1. It is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.
2. Aristeides landed on the island with a body of Hoplites, defeated the Persians and cut them to pieces to a man.
3. The wild fire that lit the eye of an Achilles can gleam no more.
4. But it is not merely the neighborhood of the cathedral that is mediæval; the whole city is of a piece.