11. She that I spoke to was blind.
12. Grouchy did not arrive at the time that Napoleon most needed him.
+Explanation+.--A preposition is wanting. _That = in which_. (Can you find
a word that would here sound better than _that_?)
13. Attention is the stuff that memory is made of.
14. It is to you that I speak.
+Explanation+.--Here the preposition, which usually would stand last in the
sentence, is found before the complement of the independent clause. In
analysis restore the preposition to its usual place--It is you that I speak
_to_. _That I speak to_ modifies the subject.
15. It was from me that he received the information.
(_Me_ must be changed to _I_ when _from_ is restored to its usual
position.)
16. Islands are the tops of mountains whose base is in the bed of the
ocean.
mountains
-----------
`
` base | is
` ------|-----
` \
`.....\whose
+Explanation+.--The connecting pronoun is here a possessive modifier of
_base_.
17. Unhappy is the man whose mother does not make all mothers interesting.
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LESSON 60.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES--CONTINUED.
Analysis.
1. Trillions of waves of ether enter the eye and hit the retina in the time
you take to breathe.
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