Put _what_ after _inquiring_ and
find the object complement. What phrase belongs to _went_, telling where?
_He directed me to (whom)_ belongs to what? Who is represented as
intending? _Intending such as we had in Boston_ belongs to what? _As we had
in Boston_ goes with what? Notice that _it seems_ is a sentence thrown in
loosely between the parts of another sentence. Such expressions are said to
be parenthetical. Notice the punctuation.
Notice that _gazing, inquiring, intending, considering, knowing_, and
_having_ are all modifiers of _I_ found in the different sentences of
paragraph 2. Put _I_ before any one of these words, and you will see that
no assertion is made. These words illustrate one form of the verb (the
participle), and _look_ in 1, paragraph 1, illustrates the other form (the
infinitive), spoken of in Lesson 11 as not asserting. Change each of these
participles to a predicate, or asserting form, and then read the sentences
in which these predicates are found. You will notice that giving these
words the asserting form makes them more prominent and forcible--brings
them up to a level with the other predicate verbs. Participles are very
useful in slurring over the less important actions that the more important
may have prominence.
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