hat there is to be ice cream produces an immediate
and profound impression.--HOLMES.

ADVERBS USED AS ADJECTIVES.

169. By a convenient brevity, adverbs are sometimes used as
adjectives; as, instead of saying, "the one who was then king," in
which _then_ is an adverb, we may say "the _then_ king," making _then_
an adjective. Other instances are,--

My _then_ favorite, in prose, Richard Hooker.--RUSKIN.

Our _sometime_ sister, now our queen.--SHAKESPEARE

Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the _then_ and _still_ owners.
--TROLLOPE.

The _seldom_ use of it.--TRENCH.

For thy stomach's sake, and thine _often_ infirmities.--_Bible._

HOW TO PARSE ADJECTIVES.

[Sidenote: _What to tell in parsing._]

170. Since adjectives have no gender, person, or case, and very few
have number, the method of parsing is simple.

In parsing an adjective, tell--

(1) The class and subclass to which it belongs.

(2) Its number, if it has number.

(3) Its degree of comparison, if it can be compared.

(4) What word or words it modifies.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

These truths are not unfamiliar to your thoughts.

_These_ points out _what_ truths, therefore demonstrative; plural
number, having a singular, _this_; cannot be compared; modifies the
word _truths_.

_Unfamiliar_ describes _truths_, therefore descriptive; not inflected
for number; compared by prefixing _more_ and _most_; positive degree;
modifies _truths_.

Exercise.

Parse in full each adjective in these sentences:--

1. A thousand lives seemed concentrated in that one moment to
Eliza.

2. The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched
and creaked.

3. I ask nothing of you, then, but that you proceed to your end
by a direct, frank, manly way.

4. She made no reply, and I waited for none.

5. A herd of thirty or forty tall ungainly figures took their
way, with awkward but rapid pace, across the plain.

6. Gallantly did the lion struggle in the folds of his terrible
enemy, whose grasp each moment grew more fierce and secure, and
most astounding were those frightful yells.

7. This gave the young people entire freedom, and they enjoyed it
to the fullest extent.

8. I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

9. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man,
seventy-five drachmas.

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