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3. The particular recording angel who heard it pretended not to understand, or it might have gone hard with the tutor.--HOLMES. 4. Yet how many are there who up, down, and over England are saying, etc.--H.W. BEECHER 5. A grizzly-looking man appeared, whom we took to be sixty or seventy years old.--THOREAU. [Sidenote: Which.] 6. The volume which I am just about terminating is almost as much English history as Dutch.--MOTLEY. 7. On hearing their plan, which was to go over the Cordilleras, she agreed to join the party.--DE QUINCEY. 8. Even the wild story of the incident which had immediately occasioned the explosion of this madness fell in with the universal prostration of mind.--_Id._ 9. Their colloquies are all gone to the fire except this first, which Mr. Hare has printed.--CARLYLE. 10. There is a particular science which takes these matters in hand, and it is called logic.--NEWMAN. [Sidenote: That.] 11. So different from the wild, hard-mouthed horses at Westport, that were often vicious.--DE QUINCEY. 12. He was often tempted to pluck the flowers that rose everywhere about him in the greatest variety.--ADDISON. 13. He felt a gale of perfumes breathing upon him, that grew stronger and sweeter in proportion as he advanced.--_Id._ 14. With narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves.--IRVING. II. RELATIVE AND ANTECEDENT. [Sidenote: _The rule._] 414. The general rule is, that the relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in person and number. [Sidenote: _In what sense true._] This cannot be true as to the form of the pronoun, as that does not vary for person or number. We say _I_, _you_, _he_, _they_, etc., _who_; _these_ or _that_ _which_, etc. However, the relative _carries over_ the agreement from the antecedent before to the verb following, so far as the verb has forms to show its agreement with a substantive. For example, in the sentence, "He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public," _that_ is invariable as to person and number, but, because of its antecedent, it makes the verb third person singular. Notice the agreement in the following sentences:-- There is not _one_ of the company, but _myself_, who rarely _speak_ at all, but _speaks_ of him as that sort, etc.--ADDISON. O _Tim
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