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.]
REMARKS ON THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
[Sidenote: Who.]
111. By reading carefully the sentences in Sec. 107, the following
facts will be noticed about the relative _who_:--
(1) It usually refers to persons: thus, in the first sentence, Sec.
107, _a man...who_; in the second, _that man...whose_; in the third,
_son_, _whom_; and so on.
(2) It has three case forms,--_who_, _whose_, _whom_.
(3) The forms do not change for person or number of the antecedent. In
sentence 4, _who_ is first person; in 5, _whose_ is second person; the
others are all third person. In 1, 2, and 3, the relatives are
singular; in 4, 5, and 6, they are plural.
[Sidenote: Who _referring to animals_.]
112. Though in most cases _who_ refers to persons there are
instances found where it refers to animals. It has been seen (Sec. 24)
that animals are referred to by personal pronouns when their
characteristics or habits are such as to render them important or
interesting to man. Probably on the same principle the personal
relative _who_ is used not infrequently in literat
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