OBS. 21.—­In syntactical parsing, each word, in general, is to be resolved by some one rule; but the parsing of a pronoun commonly requires two; one for its agreement with the noun or nouns for which it stands, and an other for its case.  The rule of agreement will be one of the four which are embraced in this present chapter; and the rule for the case will be one of the seven which compose chapter third.  So that the whole syntax of pronouns requires the application of eleven different rules, while that of nouns or verbs is embraced in six or seven, and that of any other part of speech, in one only.  In respect to their cases, relatives and interrogatives admit of every construction common to nouns, or to the personal pronouns, except apposition.  This is proved by the following examples: 

1.  Nominatives by Rule 2d:  “I who write;—­Thou who writest;—­He who writes;—­The animal which runs.”—­Dr. Adam.  “He that spareth his rod, hateth his son.”—­Solomon.  “He who does any thing which he knows is wrong, ventures on dangerous ground.”—­“What will become of us without religion?”—­Blair.  “Here I determined to wait the hand of death; which, I hope, when at last it comes, will fall lightly upon me.”—­Dr. Johnson. “What is sudden and unaccountable, serves to confound.”—­Crabb.  “They only are wise, who are wise to salvation.”—­Goodwin.

2.  Nominatives by Rule 6th:  (i.e., words parsed as nominatives after the verbs, though mostly transposed:) “Who art thou?”—­Bible. “What were we?”—­Ib. “Do not tell them who I am.”—­“Let him be who he may, he is not the honest fellow that he seemed.”—­“The general conduct of mankind is neither what it was designed, nor what it ought to be.”

3.  Nominatives absolute by Rule 8th:  “There are certain bounds to imprudence, which being transgressed, there remains no place for repentance in the natural course of things.”—­Bp.  Butler. “Which being so, it need not be any wonder, why I should.”—­Walker’s Particles, Pref., p. xiv.  “He offered an apology, which not being admitted, he became submissive.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 202.  This construction of the relative is a Latinism, and very seldom used by the best English writers.

4.  Possessives by Rule 4th:  “The chief man of the island, whose name was Publius.”—­Acts.  “Despair, a cruel tyrant, from whose prisons none can escape.”—­Dr. Johnson.  “To contemplate on Him whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.”—­Steele.