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50 USES AND INFLECTIONS. [Par. 67.

ticiple. For example, "walking" might be replaced by1. While or when: " Walking along the street one
day, I saw Thomas."
2. Because: " Walking on the ice in spite of the
park-keeper's warning, the boy fell in."
3. Though or if: " Walking with the greatest care
you will scarcely keep yourself from slipping."
4. " I once saw a man walking on a rope," i.e., " a
man that was walking."
5. " I saw him walking towards me," i.e., "while he
was walking," or "that he was walking."
67 There is probably some confusion between (I) " I saw him a-walkbig~," i.e. ' in, or, in the act oj; wallking (Noun)"; (2) " I saw him walking (Participle)"; (3) "I saw him walk (Infinitive)," which Infinitive was once " walk-en " easily confused with the Verbal Noun and
with the Active Participle.
EXERCISE XV. (SPECIMEN).
Change the italicized Participles into Verbs and
Conjunctions or Verbs and Relative Pronouns:A little boy running carelessly along the street, knocked
against an old woman cmrryinq a basket of eggs on her
head. Down fell the basket smashing all the eggs. The
thoughtless boy at first ran on; but, looking round and
seeing the people staring and the old woman beginniln to
cry, he turned back, saying, " I am very sorry; I would
not have knocked against you, if I had seen you."
" Yes, master," replied the old woman, looking sadly at
the fragments of her broken eggs lying about the
dirty pavement, " but your sorrow will not mend my
eggs, nor feed my grandchildren waitiny for bread at
home."