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Par. 65, 66.] PARI CIPLES. 49 When these words are used as Adjectives, they should be parsed as "Participles used as Adjectives." 65 2. A second Participle is formed from Transitive Verbs by adding -ed to the Verb, e.g. wound, wounded. See Par. 558. This kind of Participle is often used with a Noun, to denote that the person or thing represented by the Noun suffers the action denoted by the Verb; e.g. in " a wounded man," " wounded" denotes that a " man" has suffered wounding. Hence the Participle in -ed is called the Passive Participle. The Passive Particle is also formed in other ways, e.g., break, broken: bring, brougqht: sing, sung. The Participle in -ing is called the Active Participle. 66 How to Tell a Participle. A Participle can at once be distinguished (1) from an Adjective, (2) from part of a Stating Verb by the fact that it can be, in part, replaced by a Conjunctive word, i.e. by a Conjunctive or Relative Pronoun. You must judge from the sense of the passage what Conjunction is (partly) to replace any Par4

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