OBS. 20.—­“Most authors have given the name of pronoun adjectives, [’pronouns adjective,’ or ‘pronominal adjectives,’] to my, mine; our, ours; thy, thine; your, yours; his, her, hers; their, theirs:  perhaps because they are followed by, or refer to, some substantive [expressed or understood after them].  But, were they adjectives, they must either express the quality of their substantive, or limit its extent:  adjectives properly so called, do the first; definitive pronouns do the last.  All adjectives [that are either singular or plural,] agree with their substantives in number; but I can say, ‘They are my books:’  my is singular, and books plural; therefore my is not an adjective.  Besides, my does not express the quality of the books, but only ascertains the possessor, the same as the genitive or substantive does, to which it is similar.  Examples:  ‘They are my books;’—­’They are John’s books;’ &c.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 108.

OBS. 21.—­To the class of Participial Adjectives, should be referred all such words as the following:  (1.) The simple participles made adjectives by position; as.  “A roaring lion,”—­“A raging bear,”—­“A brawling woman,”—­“A flattering mouth,”—­“An understanding heart,”—­“Burning coals,”—­“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye.”—­Bible.  “A troubled fountain,”—­“A wounded spirit,”—­“An appointed time.”—­Ib. (2.) Words of a participial appearance, formed from nouns by adding ed; as, “The eve thy sainted mother died.”—­W.  Scott.  “What you write of me, would make me more conceited, than what I scribble myself.”—­Pope. (3.) Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended. (4.) Words of a participial form construed elliptically, as if they were nouns; as, “Among the dying and the dead.”—­“The called of Jesus Christ.”—­Rom., i, 6.  “Dearly beloved, I beseech you.”—­1 Pet., ii, 11.  “The redeemed of the Lord shall return.”—­Isaiah, li, 11.  “They talk, to the grief of thy wounded.”—­Psalms, lxix, 26:  Margin.

OBS. 22.—­In the text, Prov., vii, 26, “She hath cast down many wounded,” wounded is a participle; because the meaning is, “many men wounded,” and not, “many wounded men.”  Our Participial Adjectives are exceedingly numerous.  It is not easy to ascertain how many there are of them; because almost any simple participle may be set before a noun, and thus become an adjective:  as,

   “Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
    And parting summer’s ling’ring blooms delay’d.”—­Goldsmith.