265. PARTICIPLES OF THE VERB CHOOSE.
| ACTIVE VOICE. | |
| Imperfect. | Choosing. |
| Perfect. | Having chosen. |
| Perfect definite. | Having been choosing. |
| PASSIVE VOICE. | |
| Imperfect. | None |
| Perfect. | Chosen, being chosen, having been chosen. |
| Perfect definite. | None. |
Exercise.
Pick out the participles, and tell whether active or passive, imperfect, perfect, or perfect definite. If pure participles, tell to what word they belong; if adjectives, tell what words they modify.
1. The change is a large process, accomplished within a large and corresponding space, having, perhaps, some central or equatorial line, but lying, like that of our earth, between certain tropics, or limits widely separated.
2. I had fallen under medical advice the most misleading that it is possible to imagine.
3. These views, being adopted in a great measure from my mother, were naturally the same as my mother's.
4. Endowed with a great command over herself, she soon obtained an uncontrolled ascendency over her people.
5. No spectacle was more adapted to excite wonder.
6. Having fully supplied the demands of nature in this respect, I returned to reflection on my situation.