An orator’s tongue should be agreeable to the ear of their audience.

    Rebecca took goodly raiment, and put them on Jacob.

    Take handfuls of ashes, and let Moses sprinkle it towards heaven, in
    the sight of Pharaoh, and it shall become small dust.

    No one should incur censure for being tender of their reputation.

    Note.  Horace, you was blamed; and I think you was worthy of
    censure.

    Witness, where was you standing during the transaction?  How far was
    you from the defendant?

RULE XIV.

Relative pronouns agree with their antecedents, in gender, person, and number; as, “Thou who lovest wisdom;” “I who speak from experience.”

NOTE.  When a relative pronoun is preceded by two antecedents of different persons, the relative and the verb may agree in person with either, but not without regard to the sense; as, “I am the man who command you;” or, “I am the man who commands you.”  The meaning of the first of these examples will more obviously appear, if we render it thus:  “I who command you, am the man.”

When the agreement of the relative has been fixed with either 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.