What doth she look on? Whom doth she behold?—­WORDSWORTH.

Yet the nominative form is found quite frequently to divide the work of the objective use; for example,—­

     My son is going to be married to I don’t know who.—­GOLDSMITH.

     Who have we here?—­Id.

     Who should I meet the other day but my old friend.—­STEELE.

     He hath given away half his fortune to the Lord knows
     who.—­KINGSLEY.

     Who have we got here?—­SMOLLETT.

     Who should we find there but Eustache?—­MARRVAT.

     Who the devil is he talking to?—­SHERIDAN.

[Sidenote:  Exception 2, but he, etc.]

406.  It is a well-established usage to put the nominative form, as well as the objective, after the preposition but (sometimes save); as,—­

All were knocked down but us two.—­KINGSLEY.

Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee.—­BYRON.

Rich are the sea gods:—­who gives gifts but they?—­EMERSON.

         The Chieftains then
     Returned rejoicing, all but he. 
     —­SOUTHEY

No man strikes him but I.—­KINGSLEY.

None, save thou and thine, I’ve sworn,
Shall be left upon the morn.

BYRON.

Exercise.

Correct the italicized pronouns in the following, giving reasons from the analysis of the quotation:—­

1. Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign.

2.  Let you and I look at these, for they say there are none such in the world.

3.  “Nonsense!” said Amyas, “we could kill every soul of them in half an hour, and they know that as well as me.”

4.  Markland, who, with Jortin and Thirlby, Johnson calls three contemporaries of great eminence.

5.  They are coming for a visit to she and I.

6.  They crowned him long ago;
     But who they got to put it on
     Nobody seems to know.

7.  I experienced little difficulty in distinguishing among the pedestrians they who had business with St. Bartholomew.

8.  The great difference lies between the laborer who moves to Yorkshire and he who moves to Canada.

9.  Besides my father and Uncle Haddock—­he of the silver plates.

10. Ye against whose familiar names not yet
     The fatal asterisk of death is set,
     Ye I salute.

11.  It can’t be worth much to they that hasn’t larning.

12.  To send me away for a whole year—­I who had never crept from under the parental wing—­was a startling idea.

II.  POSSESSIVE FORMS.

[Sidenote:  As antecedent of a relative.]