連鎖関係詞節Writers and speakers not infrequently place the relative pronoun in the accusative under the false impression that it is the object of the following verb, while in reality its grammatical function demands the nominative form: 'Instinctively apprehensive of her father, whom she supposed it was, she stopped in the dark' (Dickens). Here whom is incorrectly used for who, the predicate of the relative
