FALSE SYNTAX.
Thou who has been a witness of the fact, canst state it.
The wheel killed another man, which make the sixth which have lost
their lives by this means.
Thou great First Cause, least understood!
Who all my sense confined.
_Note, 2d part_. Thou art the Lord, who didst choose Abraham, and
brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.
RULE XV.
The relative is the nominative case to the verb, when no nominative
comes between it and the verb; as, "The master _who_ taught us, was
eminent."
FALSE SYNTAX.
If he will not hear his best friend, whom shall be sent to admonish
him.
This is the man whom, he informed me, was my benefactor.
RULE XVI.
When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative
is governed by the following verb, or by some other word in its own
member of the sentence; as, "He _whom_ I _serve_, is eternal."
NOTE 1. _Who, which, what_, the relative _that_, and their
compounds, _whomever, whomsoever_, &c., though in the objective
case, are always placed before the verb; as, "He _whom_ ye _seek_,
has gone hence.
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