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3. Wine makes the face of him who drinks it to excess blush for his habits.
+Explanation+.--The adjective clause does not always modify the subject.
4. Photography is the art which enables commonplace mediocrity to look like
genius.
5. In 1685 Louis XIV. signed the ordinance that revoked the Edict of
Nantes.
6. The thirteen colonies were welded together by the measures which Samuel
Adams framed.
+Explanation+.--The pronoun connecting an adjective clause is not always a
subject.
7. The guilt of the slave-trade, [Footnote: See Lesson 61, foot-note.]
which sprang out of the traffic with Guinea, rests with John Hawkins.
8. I found the place to which you referred.
I | found | place
====|==================
| \the `
`
you | referred `
------|---------- `
| \to `
\ which `
\-------
9. The spirit in which we act is the highest matter.
10. It was the same book that I referred to.
+Explanation+.--The phrase _to that_ modifies _referred_. _That_ connects
the adjective clause. When the pronoun _that_ connects an adjective clause,
the preposition never precedes. The diagram is similar to that of (8).


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