178. In our study of adjectives in Lessons IX, XXVI, XXXIII, XXXVII, XLIV, XLV, and XLVI we have learned that adjectives may be classified as limiting adjectives and descriptive adjectives; that which and what are interrogative adjectives; that adjectives have the property of comparison; and that adjectives may be used in four different ways: (1) before a noun to modify that noun; (2) after a noun as an appositive modifier; (3) as a subjective complement of certain intransitive verbs, and (4) as the objective complement of certain transitive verbs.
Exercise.—Make an outline of the subject, Adjectives, to recite from in class. Illustrate each point you make with a good sentence of your own composition.
179. When we parse an adjective, we should tell:—
(1) Its class,—descriptive, limiting, or interrogative.
(2) Its degree (if it admits of comparison).
(3) Its use, and what it modifies.
Exercise.—Parse each adjective in the following sentences:—
1. The puppy grew bigger and clumsier each day. His most friendly overtures to the cat were wholly misunderstood.
2. Paris is an immense city, full of broad and handsome streets, magnificent buildings, grand open places with fountains and statues, great public gardens and parks free to everybody.
3. His gray eyes, clear and kind, flashed like fire when he spoke of his adventures.
4. Which picture shall we hang between these two front windows—the little Nydia or this pretty landscape?
5. It was clear that the whelps of last spring had betaken themselves to other and safer hunting grounds.
6. For a moment the boy felt afraid—afraid in his own woods.
7. Below us lies a lake, clear and cold, whereon fairies might launch their airy shallops.
8. Jo Calone threw down his saddle on the dusty ground, and turned his horses loose.
9. What fun the rabbits must have been having!
10. The full moon of October, deep orange in a clear, deep sky, hung large and somewhat distorted just over the wooded hills.
11. For a long time pain and hunger kept me awake.
12. How sweet and demure those girls looked!
13. Do you suppose that any old Roman ever had twenty-four different kinds of pie at one dinner?
14. There was something in their cries that sounded strangely wild and fierce.
15. The cardinal bird drew herself up very straight, raised her crest, and opened her big beak.
16. What harm can a naked frog do us?
17. Land in London is so valuable that a single acre of it has been sold for four and a half million dollars.
18. The old servant made our lives miserable by her cantankerous ways.