ABSTRACT
10.11. The natural place of a relative pronoun, like that of an interrogative pronoun and of a conjunction, is at the beginning of the clause. But while this rule is universal with conjunctions, and therefore with the relative that, as, and but, there are a good many exceptions with the wh-pronouns, because other tendencies of word-order may come into conflict with the front-position of these pronouns. This is especially true of literary English, which in accordance with the classical languages favours complicated relative constructions foreign to natural colloquial speech.
