Brown's Language Lessons: With Graded Exercises in Analysis, Parsing, Construction, and Composition: An Introduction to Goold Brown's Series of English Grammars
Brown's Language Lessons: With Graded Exercises in Analysis, Parsing, Construction, and Composition: An Introduction to Goold Brown's Series of English Grammars
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...LVII. COMPOUND RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 1. He who does wrong will suffer. 2. Any one who does wrong ivill suffer. 3. Whoever does wrong will suffer. In the Sentences 1 and 2, which is the principal and which the dependent clause? How many clauses are there in Sentence 3? There are two clauses, the word whoever being ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...LVII. COMPOUND RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 1. He who does wrong will suffer. 2. Any one who does wrong ivill suffer. 3. Whoever does wrong will suffer. In the Sentences 1 and 2, which is the principal and which the dependent clause? How many clauses are there in Sentence 3? There are two clauses, the word whoever being equivalent to he who or to any one who; that is, to both the antecedent and the relative. The following sentences contain words used in the same way: --1. Whoever, or whosoever, does wrong will surely repent of it. 2. Whomever, or whomsoever, he found trespassing he punished. 3. Whichever, or whichsoever, you desire I will give you. 4. Whatever, or whatsoever, you request you will obtain. 5. His father will cheerfully give him vihat he needs. Explanation.--In Sentence 1, whoever or whosoever is equivalent to he who. It is both the antecedent and the relative. In 2, whomever or whomsoever is the same in meaning as him whom. (He punished whomsoever he found.) In 3, whichever or whichsoever is the same as that which or anything which. In 4, whatever or whatsoever has the same meaning. The words whoever or whosoever, whichever or whichsoever, andwhatever or whatsoever are called compound relative pronouns. The relative pronoun what, though simple in form, is compound in office. (See Sentence 5.) Compound relative pronouns are such as have a twofold relation, or office, serving for the antecedent in one clause of a sentence and for the relative pronoun in the other. Exercise. Analyze in diagram form the five sentences given above, the separate words, orally or by written exercise. Parse The double line underneath whatever indicates its twofold relation to the clauses. The dotted line before whatever denotes that the clause is the object of the verb do; and ..
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FAIR. 5X8. Green Illustrated Hard Back Cover. Cover is faded and has foxing. Inside Cover has title page and has aged toning and pencil markings. Pages have foxing and both pencil and crayon markings. Overall in fair condition. _PAB_
