Exercise 17 (§§ 143–156, Pp. 66–71)
1. Parse the relative pronouns, using the models in § 168.
1. The lights in the shops could hardly struggle through the heavy mist, which thickened every moment. 2. I shall not budge from the position that I have taken up. 3. The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance.—Irving. 4. I hate people who meet Time half-way.—Lamb. 5. The weather, which had been stormy and unsettled, moderated toward the evening. 6. He that once indulges idle fears will never be at rest.—Johnson. 7. The only ford by which the travellers could cross was guarded by a party of militia. 8. One dark unruly night she issued secretly out of a small postern gate of the castle, which the enemy had neglected to guard. 9. I paused to contemplate a tomb on which lay the effigy of a knight in complete armor. 10. He who loves the sea loves also the ship’s routine.—Conrad. 11. There were two or three indefatigable men among them, by whose courage and industry all the rest were upheld.
—Defoe.
12. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea.—Wordsworth. 13. They slander thee sorely who say thy vows are frail.—Moore. 14. The first great poet whose works have come down to us, sang of war long before war became a science or a trade.—-Macaulay. 15. The gusts that drove against the high house seemed ready to tear it from its foothold of rock. 16. At its western side is a deep ravine or valley, through which a small stream rushes. 17. A weak mother, who perpetually threatens and never performs, is laying up miseries both for herself and for her children.—Spencer. 18. As they approached, a raven, who sat upon the topmost stone, black against the bright blue sky, flapped lazily away.—Kingsley. 19. To such of her neighbors as needed other attention, she would give her time, her assistance, her skill. 20. It was such a battle-axe as Rustum may have wielded in fight upon the banks of Oxus. 21. I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike.
2. Point out the descriptive and the restrictive relatives in 1 (above).
3. Write ten sentences, each containing a descriptive relative; ten sentences, each containing a restrictive relative.
4. Fill the blanks with relatives. In the first eight sentences, at least, use who or whom.
1. This is the boy —— I recommended.
2. The boy —— I recommended is a Swede.
3. The boy —— brought the letter is not the one —— I recommended.
4. I told Anna, —— I knew would keep my secret.
5. I told Anna, —— I knew I could trust.
6. I told Anna, —— I knew to be trustworthy.
7. I told Anna, —— I knew intimately.
8. No one —— you know lives in this street.
9. All —— I can say is, I am sorry.
10. Give me the same horse —— I had yesterday.
11. A dog, —— showed his teeth and growled, blocked the way.
12. Choose the partner —— you like best.
13. The policeman was leading a little child —— had lost its mother.
14. Take such measures —— you deem necessary.
15. Take —— measures seem necessary.
16. Take the measures —— seem to you necessary.
17. My hat is of the same size —— yours.
18. This is the picture —— I am so proud of.
19. This is the picture of —— I am so proud.
20. The man —— is talking to Henry is the one —— owns this house.
5. Supply the relatives that are “understood” (§ 151).
1. It was a bold step she had taken.
2. I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have in hand.
3. His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in.
4. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
5. Who is the wittiest man you know?
6. Morton was the only friend I had.
7. That sonata was the first piece I learned.
8. Ten dollars is the price he asks.
9. Are you the man I bought the coat of?
10. This is the book we are reading evenings.
11. Take any seat you like.
12. “Faust” is the only opera I care for.
13. I have done all I can.