LESSON 60.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES—CONTINUED.
Analysis.
1. Trillions of waves of ether enter the eye and hit the retina in the time you take to breathe.
+Explanation+.—The connecting pronoun that [Footnote: When whom, which, and that would, if used, be object complements, they are often omitted. Macaulay is the only writer we have found who seldom or never omits them.] is omitted.
2. The smith takes his name from his smoothing the metals he works on. 3. Socrates was one of the greatest sages the world ever saw. 4. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
+Explanation+.—The adjective clause modifies the omitted antecedent of whom. Supply him.
5. He did what was right.
He | did | x
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what ` | was \ right
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+Explanation+.—The adjective clause modifies the omitted word thing, or some word whose meaning is general or indefinite. [Footnote: Many grammarians prefer to treat what was right as a noun clause (see Lesson 71), the object of did. They would treat in the same way clauses introduced by whoever, whatever, whichever.