Exercise.
Put in the relatives who, which, or that where they are omitted from the following sentences, and see whether the sentences are any smoother or clearer:—
1. The insect I am now describing lived three years,—Goldsmith.
2. They will go to Sunday schools through storms their brothers are afraid of.—Holmes.
3. He opened the volume he first took from the shelf.—G. Eliot.
4. He could give the coals in that queer coal scuttle we read of to his poor neighbor.—Thackeray.
5. When Goldsmith died, half the unpaid bill he owed to Mr. William Filby was for clothes supplied to his nephew.—Forster
6. The thing I want to see is not Redbook Lists, and Court Calendars, but the life of man in England.—Carlyle.
7. The material they had to work upon was already democratical by instinct and habitude.—Lowell.
Relative omitted when subject.