4. Fill the blanks with relatives. In the first eight sentences, at least, use who or whom.
- 1. This is the boy —— I recommended.
- 2. The boy —— I recommended is a Swede.
- 3. The boy —— brought the letter is not the one —— I recommended.
- 4. I told Anna, —— I knew would keep my secret.
- 5. I told Anna, —— I knew I could trust.
- 6. I told Anna, —— I knew to be trustworthy.
- 7. I told Anna, —— I knew intimately.
- 8. No one —— you know lives in this street.
- 9. All —— I can say is, I am sorry.
- 10. Give me the same horse —— I had yesterday.
- 11. A dog, —— showed his teeth and growled, blocked the way.
- 12. Choose the partner —— you like best.
- 13. The policeman was leading a little child —— had lost its mother.
- 14. Take such measures —— you deem necessary.
- 15. Take —— measures seem necessary.
- 16. Take the measures —— seem to you necessary.
- 17. My hat is of the same size —— yours.
- 18. This is the picture —— I am so proud of.
- 19. This is the picture of —— I am so proud.
- 20. The man —— is talking to Henry is the one —— owns this house.
5. Supply the relatives that are “understood” ([§ 151]).
- 1. It was a bold step she had taken.
- 2. I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have in hand.
- 3. His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in.
- 4. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
- 5. Who is the wittiest man you know?
- 6. Morton was the only friend I had.
- 7. That sonata was the first piece I learned.
- 8. Ten dollars is the price he asks.
- 9. Are you the man I bought the coat of?
- 10. This is the book we are reading evenings.
- 11. Take any seat you like.
- 12. “Faust” is the only opera I care for.
- 13. I have done all I can.
EXERCISE 18
([§§ 157–162], [pp. 71–73])
Parse the relatives.
1. Whatever wisdom and energy could do William did. 2. Whatever is done skilfully appears to be done with ease. 3. We must suspect what we see, distrust what we hear, and doubt even what we feel!—Miss Burney. 4. Whoever has been in a state of nervous agitation, must know that the longer it continues the more uncontrollable it grows.—Irving. 5. Time hath reft whate’er my soul enjoyed.—Byron. 6. The gallant major showed no hesitation whatever. 7. Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. 8. A recollection of what I had seen and felt the preceding night still haunted my mind. 9. Hard work was what he needed now. 10. Whatever regrets Mrs. Thorverton might indulge in secret, she had had the strength of mind to hide them. 11. Like all weak men, they had recourse to what they called strong measures. 12. We see in him a freer, purer development of whatever is noblest in ourselves. 13. Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman. 14. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honor.—Shakspere. 15. He was really interested in what Coningsby had seen and what he had felt. 16. What was to be seen at Naples, Addison saw.
EXERCISE 19
([§§ 163–168], [pp. 73–74])
Parse the interrogative pronouns, mentioning gender, number, person, and case. If the interrogative word is an adjective, tell what noun it limits.
1. Who would not sing for Lycidas? 2. What that sigh meant I cannot say. 3. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand? 4. Which of the two was daughter to the duke? 5. Whom next shall we summon from the dusty dead?—Lamb. 6. Why! Peggy, what have you brought us? 7. What’s fame? A fancied life in others’ breath.—Pope. 8. To what shall I compare it? 9. And what art thou, O melancholy voice?—Shelley. 10. Proud sufferer, who art thou? 11. What were Swigby’s former pursuits I can’t tell. What need we care? Hadn’t he five hundred a year? Ay, that he had.—Thackeray. 12. What does it matter? 13. Which way have you looked for Master Caius? 14. What business had they in Prussia?