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Exercise


First find the antecedents, then parse the relatives, in the following

sentences:--


1. How superior it is in these respects to the pear, whose blossoms

are neither colored nor fragrant!


2. Some gnarly apple which I pick up in the road reminds me by its

fragrance of all the wealth of Pomona.


3. Perhaps I talk with one who is selecting some choice barrels for

filling an order.


4. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.


5. Alas! it is we ourselves that are getting buried alive under this

avalanche of earthly impertinences.


6. This method also forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which

is, after all, the highest result of all education.


7. I know that there are many excellent people who object to the

reading of novels as a waste of time.


8. I think they are trying to outwit nature, who is sure to be

cunninger than they.



[Sidenote: _Parsing_ what, _the simple relative_.]


120. The relative _what_ is handled differently, because it has

usually no antecedent, but is singular, neuter, third person. Its case

is determined exactly as that of other relatives. In the sentence,

"What can't be cured must be endured," the verb _must be endured_ is

the predicate of something. What must be endured? Answer, _What can't

be cured_. The whole expression is its subject. The word _what_,

however, is subject of the verb _can't be cured_, and hence is in the

nominative case.


"What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change."

Here the subject of _is_, etc., is _what we call nature_; but of this,

_we_ is the subject, and _what_ is the direct object of the verb

_call_, so is in the objective case.


[Sidenote: _Another way._]


Some prefer another method of treatment. As shown by the following

sentences, _what_ is equivalent to _that which_:--


It has been said that "common souls pay with _what_ they do,

nobler souls with _that which_ they are."--EMERSON.


_That which_ is pleasant often appears under the name of evil;

and _what_ is disagreeable to nature is called good and

virtuous.--BURKE.


Hence some take _what_ as a double relative, and parse _that_ in the

first clause, and _which_ in the second clause; that is, "common

souls pay with _that_ [singular, object of _with_] _which_ [singular,

object of _do_] they do."








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