[Sidenote: Who _and its forms._]
107. Examples of the relative _who_ and its forms:--
1. Has a man gained anything _who_ has received a hundred favors
and rendered none?--EMERSON.
2. That man is little to be envied _whose_ patriotism would not
gain force upon the plain of Marathon.--DR JOHNSON.
3. For her enchanting son,
_Whom_ universal nature did lament.--MILTON.
4. The nurse came to us, _who_ were sitting in an adjoining
apartment.--THACKERAY.
5. Ye mariners of England,
That guard our native seas;
_Whose_ flag has braved, a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!--CAMPBELL.
6. The men _whom_ men respect, the women _whom_ women approve,
are the men and women _who_ bless their species.--PARTON
[Sidenote: Which _and its forms._]
108. Examples of the relative _which_ and its forms:--
1. They had not their own luster, but the look _which_ is not of
the earth.--BYRON.
2. The embattled portal arch he pass'd,
_Whose_ ponderous grate and massy bar
Had oft roll'd back the tide of war.--SCOTT.
3. Generally speaking, the dogs _which_ stray around the butcher
shops restrain their appetites.--COX.
4. The origin of language is divine, in the same sense in _which_
man's nature, with all its capabilities ..., is a divine
creation.--W.D. WHITNEY.
5. (_a_) This gradation ... ought to be kept in view; else this
description will seem exaggerated, _which_ it certainly is
not.--BURKE.
(_b_) The snow was three inches deep and still falling, _which_
prevented him from taking his usual ride.--IRVING.
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[Sidenote: That.]
109. Examples of the relative _that_:--
1. The man _that_ hath no music in himself,...
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
--SHAKESPEARE
2. The judge ... bought up all the pigs _that_ could be
had.--LAMB
3. Nature and books belong to the eyes _that_ see them.--EMERSON.
4. For the sake of country a man is told to yield everything
_that_ makes the land honorable.--H.W. BEECHER
5. Reader, _that_ do not pretend to have leisure for very much
scholarship, you will not be angry with me for telling you.--DE
QUINCEY.
6. The Tree Igdrasil, _that_ has its roots down in the kingdoms
of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest
heaven!--CARLYLE.
[Sidenote: What.]
110. Examples of the use of the relative _what_:--
1. Its net to entangle the enemy seems to be _what_ it chiefly
trusts to, and _what_ it takes most pains to render as complete
as possible.--GOLDSMITH.
2. For _what_ he sought below is passed above, Already done is
all that he would do.--MARGARET FULLER.
3. Some of our readers may have seen in India a crowd of crows
picking a sick vulture to death, no bad type of _what_ often
happens in that country.--MACAULAY
[_To the Teacher._--If pupils work over the above sentences carefully,
and test every remark in the following paragraphs, they will get a
much better understanding of the relatives.]
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