Note 4 — Section 16. POOR PAY[1].
Reading edition
‘leaning — musket’. This passage must be changed into a relative clause, thus: ‘who leant (sich stützen) pensively (gedankenvoll) upon the butt-end (Kolben, m.) of his musket’, for: Sentences containing a Present Participle which qualifies a preceding noun or pronoun, are generally turned into relative clauses; as—
Return to Section 16. POOR PAY[1].Return to Section 32. REYNARD[1] CAUGHT.Return to Section 67. TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE. VII.Return to Section 83. THE POWER OF BEAUTY.Return to Section 84. THE ENGLISH CLIMATE.Return to Section 95. ANGLO[1]-SAXON DRESS.Return to Section 114. THE SOURCES[1] OF WATER.Return to Section 137. DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF YOUR ORIGIN. II.Return to Section 171. TAHITI. III.Return to Section 176. THE BATTLE OF KASSASSIN. IV.Return to INDEX TO THE GRAMMATICAL RULES AND IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS.