7. We should avoid injuring the feelings of others.
8. My going there will depend upon my father's giving his consent.
9. Good reading aloud is a rare accomplishment.
The +participial form+ may be used as a +mere noun+ or a +mere adjective+.
10. The cackling of geese saved Rome.
11. Such was the exciting campaign, celebrated in many a long-forgotten
song. [Footnote: "_Manig man_ in Anglo-Saxon was used like German
_mancher mann_, Latin _multus vir_, and the like, until the thirteenth
century; when the article was inserted to emphasize the distribution
before indicated by the singular number."--_Prof. F. A. March._]
+Explanation+.--_Many_ modifies _song_ after _song_ has been limited by _a_
and _long-forgotten_.
12. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
13. He was a squeezing, grasping, hardened old sinner.
The +participle+ may be used in +independent+ or +absolute phrases+.
14. The bridge at Ashtabula giving way, the train fell into the river.
+Explanation+.--The diagram of the absolute phrase, which consists of a
noun used independently with a participle, stands by itself. See lesson 44.
15. Talking of exercise, you have heard, of course, of Dickens's
"constitutionals.
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