er of the
preceding antecedents, it must be preserved throughout the sentence;
as, "I am the _Lord, that maketh_ all things; _that stretcheth_
forth the heavens alone; _that spreadeth_ abroad the earth by
myself," &c.

FALSE SYNTAX.

Thou who has been a witness of the fact, canst state it.

The wheel killed another man, which make the sixth which have lost
their lives by this means.

Thou great First Cause, least understood!

Who all my sense confined.

_Note, 2d part_. Thou art the Lord, who didst choose Abraham, and
brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.

RULE XV.

The relative is the nominative case to the verb, when no nominative
comes between it and the verb; as, "The master _who_ taught us, was
eminent."

FALSE SYNTAX.

If he will not hear his best friend, whom shall be sent to admonish
him.

This is the man whom, he informed me, was my benefactor.

RULE XVI.

When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative
is governed by the following verb, or by some other word in its own
member of the sentence; as, "He _whom_ I _serve_, is eternal."

NOTE 1. _Who, which, what_, the relative _that_, and their
compounds, _whomever, whomsoever_, &c., though in the objective
case, are always placed before the verb; as, "He _whom_ ye _seek_,
has gone hence."

2. Every relative must have an antecedent to which it relates,
either expressed or implied; as, "_Who_ steals my purse, steals
trash;" that is, _he_ who.

3. The pronouns _whichsoever, whatsoever_, and the like, are
sometimes elegantly divided by the interposition of the
corresponding nouns; as, "On _which_ side _soever_ the _king_ cast
his eyes," &c.

4. The pronoun _what_ is sometimes improperly used instead of the
conjunction _that;_ as, "He would not believe but _what_ I was in
fault." It should be "but _that_," &c.

FALSE SYNTAX.

That is the friend who I sincerely esteem.

Not proper, because _who_, which is the object of the action expressed
by the transitive verb "esteem," is in the nominative case. It ought to
be _whom_, in the objective; and then it would be governed by esteem,
according to Rule 16. (Repeat the Rule:)--and, also, according to Rule
20. "That is the friend _whom_ I sincerely esteem."

They who much is given to, will have much to answer for.

From the character of those w