2. The fat of the body is fuel laid away for use.
+Explanation+.--The complement is here modified by a participle phrase.
3. The spinal marrow, proceeding from the brain, extends down-ward through
the back-bone.
4. Van Twiller sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated
forest of the Hague.
+Explanation+.--The principal word of a prepositional phrase is here
modified by a participle phrase.
5. Lentulus, returning with victorious legions, had amused the populace
with the sports of the amphitheater.
The +participle+ may be used as an +attribute complement+.
6. The natives came crowding around.
+Explanation+.--_Crowding_ here completes the predicate _came_, and belongs
to the subject _natives_. The natives are represented as performing the act
of coming and the accompanying act of crowding. The assertive force of the
predicate _came_ seems to extend over both verbs. [Footnote: Some
grammarians prefer to treat the participle in such constructions as
adverbial. But is _crowding_ any more adverbial here than are _pale_ and
_trembling_ in "The natives came _pale_ and _trembling_"?]
7. The city lies sleeping.
8. They stood terrified.
9. The philosopher sat buried in thought.
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