no
grammatical modifications of any kind.

OBS. 14.--To distinguish the perfect participle from the preterit of the
same form, observe _the sense_, and see which of the auxiliary forms will
express it: thus, _loved_ for _being loved_, is a participle; but _loved_
for _did love_, is a preterit verb. So _held_ for _did hold, stung_ for
_did sting, taught_ for _did teach_, and the like, are irregular verbs; but
_held_ for _being held, stung_ for _being stung, taught_ for _being
taught_, and the like, are perfect participles.

OBS. 15.--Though the English participles have no inflections, and are
consequently incapable of any grammatical agreement or disagreement, those
which are simple, are sometimes elegantly taken in a plural sense, with the
apparent construction of _nouns_; but, under these circumstances, they are
in reality neither nouns nor participles, but participial adjectives
construed elliptically, as other adjectives often are, and relating to
plural nouns understood. The ellipsis is sometimes of a singular noun,
though very rarely, and much less properly. Examples: "To them who are _the
called_ according to his purpose."--_Rom._, x, 28. That is--"the called
_ones_ or _persons_." "God is not the God of _the dead_, but of _the
living_."--_Matt._, xxii, 32. "Neither is it found in the land of _the
living_."--_Job_, xxviii, 13. "_The living, the living, he_ shall praise
thee, as I do this day."--_Isaiah_, xxxviii, 19. "Till we are made fit to
live and reign with him and _all his redeemed_, in the heavenly glory
forever."--_Jenks's Prayers_, p. 18.

"_Ye blessed_ of my Father, come, _ye just_,
Enter the joy eternal of your Lord."--_Pollok_, B. x, l. 591.

"Depart from me, _ye cursed_, into the fire
Prepared eternal in the gulf of Hell."--_Id._, B. x, l. 449.

EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.

PRAXIS VII.--ETYMOLOGICAL.

_In the Seventh Praxis it is required of the pupil--to distinguish and
define the different parts of speech, and the classes and modifications of
the_ ARTICLES, NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, VERBS, and PARTICIPLES.

_The definitions to be given in the Seventh Praxis, are two for an article,
six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb
finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle,--and one for an
adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or an interjection. Thus_:--

EXAMPLE PARSED.

"Religion, rightly understood and practised, has the purest of all j