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20 THE RELATIVE PRONOUN. [Par. 23, 24.

Find out the Subjects and Objects of all the
Verbs in the foregoing sentences.
23 The Position of the Relative.
Note that the Relative Pronoun, when used as
Object, precedes both the Subject and the Verb.
The reason is that the Pronoun, serving the purpose
of a Conjunction, has to precede the sentence that it
joins to the Principal Sentence.
24 When a Parenthetical Sentence intervenes between the Relative Pronoun and its Verb, that
sentence must be carefully separated from the
Relative Sentence.
A Parenthetical sentence is a sentence inserted in
the midst of another sentence, the latter being complete without the former.
The following are examples of sentences containing Relative Pronouns followed by Parenthetical
sentences:(1) "Yesterday I met Robert, who -you will hardly
believe it - as grown to be six feet high, with a
beard reacling to his watch-chain."
(2) "Yesterday I met Robert, whom (though I had
not seen him for ten years) I recognized at once."
In the following Exercise, the Conjunctional sentences are inserted between parenthetical marks;