VERBALS.
PARTICIPLES.
Careless use of the participial phrase.
450. The following sentences illustrate a misuse of the participial phrase:—
Pleased with the "Pilgrim's Progress," my first collection was of John Bunyan's works.—B. Franklin.
My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's goodwill.—Goldsmith.
Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy.—Id.
Having thus run through the causes of the sublime, my first observation will be found nearly true.—Burke
He therefore remained silent till he had repeated a paternoster, being the course which his confessor had enjoined.—Scott