Jane, I had the same response and have the same question as you. I hope
others jump in to enlighten us.

Dick Veit

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Jane Saral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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