indefinite relative).

[Sidenote: _Another caution._]

128. On the other hand, care must be taken to see whether the
pronoun is the word that really _asks the question_ in an
interrogative sentence. Examine the following:--

1. Sweet rose! whence is this hue
_Which_ doth all hues excel?
--DRUMMOND

2. And then what wonders shall you do
_Whose_ dawning beauty warms us so?
--WALKER

3. Is this a romance? Or is it a faithful picture of _what_ has
lately been in a neighboring land?--MACAULAY


These are interrogative sentences, but in none of them does the
pronoun ask the question. In the first, _whence_ is the interrogative
word, _which_ has the antecedent _hue_. In the second, _whose_ has the
antecedent _you_, and asks no question. In the third, the question is
asked by the verb.



OMISSION OF THE RELATIVES.