Models for Parsing
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Parse SEEING in the sentence - The child, seeing its mother, ran to meet her.
SEEING is
(1) the Present Participle
(2) Active
(3) of the irregular and transitive verb TO SEE (Present see, Past saw and Past Participle seen.)
Parse HAVING RECITED in the sentence - The boys, having recited their lessons, were dismissed.’
HAVING RECITED is
(1) the Compound Perfect-Participle
(2) Active
(3) of the regular and transitive verb TO RECITE.
As the Participle is a part of the verb, it may have a noun after it in the objective case in the same manner as the verb HAS…thus - John having written a letter, took it to the Post-office.
Here LETTER is in the objective case and is the object of the Participle HAVING WRITTEN.
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