[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 literature, referring to animals.

Witness the following examples:—­

     And you, warm little housekeeper [the cricket], who class With
     those who think the candles come too soon.—­LEIGH HUNT.

     The robins...have succeeded in driving off the bluejays who
     used to build in our pines.—­LOWELL.

     The little gorilla, whose wound I had dressed, flung its arms
     around my neck.—­THACKERAY.

     A lake frequented by every fowl whom Nature has taught to dip
     the wing in water.—­DR. JOHNSON.

     While we had such plenty of domestic insects who infinitely
     excelled the former, because they understood how to weave as well
     as to spin.—­SWIFT.

     My horse, who, under his former rider had hunted the buffalo,
     seemed as much excited as myself.—­IRVING.