An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

Exercise.

Rewrite the following quotations by repeating one relative instead of using two for the same antecedent:—­

[Sidenote:  That ... who.]

     1.  Still in the confidence of children that tread without fear
     every chamber in their father’s house, and to whom no door is
     closed.—­DE QUINCEY.

     2.  Those renowned men that were our ancestors as much as yours,
     and whose examples and principles we inherit.—­BEECHER.

     3.  The Tree Igdrasil, that has its roots down in the kingdoms
     of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest
     heaven!—­CARLYLE.

[Sidenote:  That ... which.]

     4.  Christianity is a religion that reveals men as the object of
     God’s infinite love, and which commends him to the unbounded love
     of his brethren.—­W.E.  CHANNING.

     5.  He flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first
     organic figure that has been added for some ages, and which will
     remain as long as the Prometheus.—­EMERSON.

     6.  Gutenburg might also have struck out an idea that surely did
     not require any extraordinary ingenuity, and which left the most
     important difficulties to be surmounted.—­HALLAM.

     7.  Do me the justice to tell me what I have a title to be
     acquainted with, and which I am certain to know more truly from
     you than from others.—­SCOTT.

     8.  He will do this amiable little service out of what one may
     say old civilization has established in place of goodness of
     heart, but which is perhaps not so different from it.—­HOWELLS.

     9.  In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a
     century ago, was a bustling wharf,—­but which is now burdened
     with decayed wooden warehouses.—­HAWTHORNE.

10.  His recollection of what he considered as extreme presumption in the Knight of the Leopard, even when he stood high in the roles of chivalry, but which, in his present condition, appeared an insult sufficient to drive the fiery monarch into a frenzy of passion.—­SCOTT

[Sidenote:  That which ... what.]

     11.  He, now without any effort but that which he derived from the
     sill, and what little his feet could secure the irregular
     crevices, was hung in air.—­W.G.  SIMMS.

[Sidenote:  Such as ... which.]

     12.  It rose into a thrilling passion, such as my heart had always
     dimly craved and hungered after, but which now first interpreted
     itself to my ear.—­DE QUINCEY.

     13.  I recommend some honest manual calling, such as they have
     very probably been bred to, and which will at least give them a
     chance of becoming President.—­HOLMES.

[Sidenote:  Such as ... whom.]

     14.  I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men
     as do not belong to me, and to whom I do not belong.—­EMERSON.

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