When the word relative is used, a simple relative is meant. Indefinite relatives, and the indefinite use of simple relatives, will be discussed further on.
The SIMPLE RELATIVES are who, which, that, what.
Who and its forms.
107. Examples of the relative who and its forms:—
1. Has a man gained anything who has received a hundred favors and rendered none?—Emerson.
2. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon.—Dr Johnson.
3.
For her enchanting son,
Whom universal nature did lament.
—Milton.
4. The nurse came to us, who were sitting in an adjoining apartment.—Thackeray.
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