I. Point out the adjectives in each of the following sentences and parse them using the parsing model for adjectives above.In working with this exercise, use the Parsing Model for Adjectives.

  1. The passionate are like men standing on their heads;  they see all things the wrong way.
  2. There are two ways of arriving at the highest personal liberty; one is to have few wants, and the other is to have abundant means to satisfy them.
  3. Shining characters are always the most agreeable.
  4. Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition.
  5. The beautiful strikes us much by novelty as the deformed, itself
     Burke
  6. Stone walls do not a prison make
            Nor iron bars a cage.
    Minds innocent and quiet take
           That for a hermitage.

II. Parse the nouns and the adjectives in the following sentences:

  1. Rarely in public office, he was still a public man in largest sense; all were proud of him. The old honored him, the young loved him, and both old and young admitted him.
  2. How sweetly come the holy psalms
           From saints and martyrs down
    The waving of triumphal palms
           Above the thorny crown!
    The choral praise, the chanted prayers
           From harps by angles strung.
    The hunted Cameron’s mountain airs,
           The hymns that Luther sung!
     
    Whittier



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