2.
And then what wonders shall you do
Whose dawning beauty warms us so?
—Walker
3.
Is this a romance? Or is it a faithful picture of what has lately been in a neighboring land?—Macaulay
These are interrogative sentences, but in none of them does the pronoun ask the question. In the first, whence is the interrogative word, which has the antecedent hue. In the second, whose has the antecedent you, and asks no question. In the third, the question is asked by the verb.
OMISSION OF THE RELATIVES.
Relative omitted when object.
129. The relative is frequently omitted in spoken and in literary English when it would be the object of a preposition or a verb. Hardly a writer can be found who does not leave out relatives in this way when they can be readily supplied in the mind of the reader. Thus,—
These are the sounds we feed upon.—Fletcher.
I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed.—Swift.