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.
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