A recent SAT "ID the error" question reads:

Although it is *widely regarded* as a masterpiece now, *when* it was built

A                                                  B

the Eiffel Tower was compared to a "ridiculous smokestack" *by them* who did

C

not *approve of it*.        *No error*
            D                       E


C just sounds wrong.  I would say "by those who did not approve of it."
But isn't the "them/those" word the stand-alone O.P. of *by*, unaffected by
the relative clause that follows?  This does not seem to be dealing with
the who/whom question;  "who" is correctly the subject of "did not
approve."

So why is this an error?

Jane Saral

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