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Kirkham, Samuel

"English Grammar in Familiar Lectures"


He is a man who I greatly respect.
Our benefactors and tutors are the persons who we ought to love, and
who we ought to be grateful to.
They who conscience and virtue support, may smile at the caprices of
fortune.
Who did you walk with?
Who did you see there?
Who did you give the book to?
RULE XVII.
When a relative pronoun is of the interrogative kind, it refers to the
word or phrase containing the answer to the question for its
_subsequent_, which subsequent must agree in _case_ with the
interrogative; as, "_Whose_ book is that? _Joseph's;" "Who_ gave you
this? _John_."
NOTE. Whether the interrogative _really refers_ to a subsequent or
not, is doubtful; but it is certain that the subsequent should agree
in case with the interrogative.
FALSE SYNTAX.
Who gave John those books? Us. Of whom did you buy them? Of a
bookseller, he who lives in Pearl street.
Who walked with you? My brother and him.
Who will accompany me to the country? Her and me.
RULE XVIII.
Adjectives belong to, and qualify nouns, expressed or understood; as,
"He is a _good_, as well as a _wise_ man.


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