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Par. 22.] THE RELATIVE PRONOUN.

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The form who, or whom, will of itself tell you at
once whether it is Subject or Object.
In parsing a Relative Pronoun, state -
1. Antecedent.
2. Subject of what Verb, or,
3. Object of what Verb or Preposition.
EXERCISE VIII.
Parse the Relative Pronouns in the following
sentences:1. The jay that robbed the peacocks of their feathers was
very soon punished for her robbery. 2. The ass that
frightened the beasts of the forest ryas laughed at when
he began to bray. 3. The crow dropped the cheese,
which the fox immediately snapped up. 4. The lion that
spared the mouse was afterwards released by the mouse.
5. The travellers, all of whom had seen the chameleon,
could not agree about its color. 6. Shakespeare tells us
that the man that does not love music is fit for murders
and conspiracies. 7. The girl that I told you of, who
counted her chickens before they were hatched, was
taught a lesson that she never forgot. 8. Have you ever
heard of Horatius Codes, who defended the bridge
against a host of enemies, and whom the Romans honored by erecting a statue to his memory?
Write these down as follows: -
Word. Antecedent. Subject of Object of
that jay robbed
which cheese - snapped up