I. Parse the relative pronouns in the following examples.
As you work through these exercises, use the informatiion on the Parsing Model for Relative Pronouns page.

  1. A dauntless soul erect who smiles at death.
    Call imperfection what thou fanciest such.
    Alexander Pope
  2. Whoever seeks the good of others, will himself be blessed.
    Whatsoever he doeth, shall prosper.
  3. But that which gave the brightest luster not only to the eloquence of Chatham, but to his character, was his loftiness and nobleness of soul.
  4. He loved fame, but it was the fame that follows, not he fame that runs after; not the fame that is gained by the little acts that bring forward little men, but the fame that a minister will and must wring from the very people whose prejudices he despises, and whose passions he controls.
  5. From the structure that we raise,
          Time is what materials filled;
    Our to-days and yesterdays
          Are the blocks with which we build.
     Henry Wordsworth Longfellow



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