Participial adjectives have been discussed in Sec. 143 (4), but we give further examples for the sake of comparison and distinction.

[Sidenote:  Fossil participles as adjectives.]

     3.  As learned a man may live in a cottage or a college
     commmon-room.—­THACKERAY

     4.  Not merely to the soldier are these campaigns interesting
     —­BAYNE.

     5.  How charming is divine philosophy!—­MILTON.

[Sidenote:  Forms of the participle.]

264.  Participles, in expressing action, may be active or passive, incomplete (or imperfect), complete (perfect or past), and perfect definite.

They cannot be divided into tenses (present, past, etc.), because they have no tense of their own, but derive their tense from the verb on which they depend; for example,—­

1.  He walked conscientiously through the services of the day,
fulfilling every section the minutest, etc.—­DE QUINCEY.

Fulfilling has the form to denote continuance, but depends on the verb walked, which is past tense.

2.  Now the bright morning star, day’s harbinger,
Comes dancing from the East.—­MILTON.

Dancing here depends on a verb in the present tense.

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.

7.  Three saplings, stripped of their branches and bound together at their ends, formed a kind of bedstead.

8.  This all-pervading principle is at work in our system,—­the creature warring against the creating power.

9.  Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.