LESSON XXVII.—­PARTICIPLES.

1.  What questionable uses of participles are commonly admitted by grammarians? 2.  Why does the author incline to condemn these peculiarities? 3.  What is observed of the multiplicity of uses to which the participle in ing may be turned? 4.  What is said of the participles which some suppose to be put absolute? 5.  How are participles placed? 6.  What is said of the transitive use of such words as unbecoming? 7.  What distinction, in respect to government, is to be observed between a participle and a participial noun? 8.  What shall we do when of after the participial noun is objectionable? 9.  What is said of the correction of those examples in which a needless article or possessive is put before the participle? 10.  What is stated of the retaining of adverbs with participial nouns? 11.  Can words having the form of the first participle be nouns, and clearly known to be such, when they have no adjuncts? 12.  What strictures are made on Murray, Lennie, and Bullions, with reference to examples in which an infinitive follows the participial noun? 13.  In what instances is the first participle equivalent to the infinitive? 14.  What is said of certain infinitives supposed to be erroneously put for participles? 15.  What verbs take the participle after them, and not the infinitive? 16.  What is said of those examples in which participles seem to be made the objects of verbs? 17.  What is said of the teaching of Murray and others, that, “The participle with its adjuncts may be considered as a substantive phrase?” 18.  How does the English participle compare with the Latin gerund? 19.  How do Dr. Adam and others suppose “the gerund in English” to become a “substantive,” or noun? 20.  How does the French construction of participles and infinitives compare with the English?

LESSON XXVIII.—­PARTICIPLES.

21.  What difference does it make, whether we use the possessive case before words in ing, or not? 22.  What is said of the distinguishing or confounding of different parts of speech, such as verbs, participles, and nouns? 23.  With how many other parts of speech does W. Allen confound the participle? 24.  How is the distinguishing of the participle from the verbal noun inculcated by Allen, and their difference of meaning by Murray? 25.  Is it pretended that the authorities and reasons which oppose the mixed construction of participles, are sufficient to prove such usage altogether inadmissible? 26.  Is it proper to teach, in general terms, that the noun or pronoun which limits the meaning of a participle should be put in the possessive case? 27.  What is remarked of different cases used indiscriminately before the participle or verbal noun? 28.  What say Crombie and others about this disputable phraseology? 29.  What says Brown of this their teaching? 30.  How do Priestley and others pretend to distinguish