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Par. 24.] THE RELATIVE PRONOUN.

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but the pupil must be prepared to parse the Relative
hereafter without the aid of these marks. The
following will be found a useful Rule: -
When the Relative is followed by a Conjunction
(e.g. "though" above in (2)) introducing a new
sentence, leave out this sentence in parsing the
Relative.
EXERCISE IX.
Parse the Relative Pronouns in the following
Exercise, stating the Antecedent, and the Verb or
Preposition of which each is Subject or Object:Once there was a quarrel between the eyes and the nose
about the ownership of the spectacles, which (so said the
nose) were uindoubtedly intended for him and not for his
two neighbors the eyes; who, on their part (although
they admitted that the nose had a share in the spectacles), yet claimed the largest share for themselves. The
two ears, whom both parties accepted as judges, called on
the tongue, who was counsel for both, to plead first the
cause of the eyes, and then that of the nose. So the
tongue began by saying that spectacles that had no eyes
to look through them, were of no use; the word "spectacle," which the Latins used to denote a " place for seeing,"
proved, of itself, that the instrument was meant for seeing
and not for smelling. The judges, who (though they
became rather inattentive while Latin was being quoted)
had listened with great patience to the arguments that
the tongue brought forward, now desired to hear what the
nose had to say. So the tongue, taking that side of
the question, which lie pleaded remarkably well, called
attention to the saddle that was between the two glasses,