7.  It is well known that the announcement at any private rural
     entertainment that 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.