--_Improve these sentences by changing the participles into
infinitives, and the infinitives into participles_:--
1. We began ascending the mountain.
2. He did not recollect to have paid it.
3. I commenced to write a letter.
4. It is inconvenient being poor.
5. It is not wise complaining.
+Direction+.--_Vary these sentences as in the model_:--
+Model+.--_Rising early_ is healthful; _To rise_ early is healthful; _It_
is healthful _to rise_ early; _For one to rise_ early is healthful.
(Notice that the explanatory phrase after _it_ is not set off by the
comma.)
1. Reading good books is profitable.
2. Equivocating is disgraceful.
3. Slandering is base.
4. Indorsing another's paper is dangerous.
5. Swearing is sinful.
+Direction.+--_Write nine sentences, in three of which the infinitive
phrase shall be used as an adjective, in three as an adverb, and in three
as a noun_.
+Direction.+--_Write eight sentences in which these verbs shall be followed
by an infinitive without the to_:--
+Model.+--We _saw_ the sun _sink_ behind the mountain.
Bid, dare, feel, hear, let, make, need, and see.
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LESSON 44.
WORDS AND PHRASES USED INDEPENDENTLY.
+Introductory Hints.+--In this Lesson we wish to notice words and phrases
that in certain uses have no grammatical connection with the rest of the
sentence.
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