The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1893 - 288 pages |
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Alfred Slater West. 128. IV . Relative Pronouns . The characteristic feature of the Relative Pronouns is this : they have the force of conjunctions . Thus , the sentence ' I met the policeman who said there was a disturbance ' contains ...
Alfred Slater West. 128. IV . Relative Pronouns . The characteristic feature of the Relative Pronouns is this : they have the force of conjunctions . Thus , the sentence ' I met the policeman who said there was a disturbance ' contains ...
Page 122
... relative can occur only when the relative is in the objective case : we cannot suppress the relative , if it is in the nominative or possessive . Thus from the sentence " The man who met me told me so ' we cannot leave out who , nor ...
... relative can occur only when the relative is in the objective case : we cannot suppress the relative , if it is in the nominative or possessive . Thus from the sentence " The man who met me told me so ' we cannot leave out who , nor ...
Page 238
... relative and say ' He I accuse ; ' but Shakespeare omits the relative and allows the antecedent to be attracted to the objective case of the relative . ] 5. State the laws which determine the use of the words ' who ' and ' that ' in a ...
... relative and say ' He I accuse ; ' but Shakespeare omits the relative and allows the antecedent to be attracted to the objective case of the relative . ] 5. State the laws which determine the use of the words ' who ' and ' that ' in a ...
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