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They marched into the apartment where the banquet was served; and which, as I have promised the reader he shall enjoy it, he shall have the liberty of ordering himself.—Thackeray.
A large mineral-water firm in London, whose ordinary shares are a million in value, and which shares always paid a dividend before the imposition of the sugar-tax, have not paid any dividend since.—Times.
He very much doubted whether I could find it on his mine, which was located some five miles from St. Austell, Cornwall, and upon whose property I had never been.—Times.
But I have besought my mother, who is apprehensive of Mr. Lovelace's visits, and for fear of whom my uncles never stir out without arms,...—Richardson.
It was of Mr. Lovelace that the uncles were afraid.
d. Case of the relative.
Special attention was not drawn, in the section on Case, to the gross error committed in the following examples:
Instinctively apprehensive of her father, whom she supposed it was, she stopped in the dark.—Dickens.
That peculiar air of contempt commonly displayed by insolent menials to those whom they imagine are poor.—Corelli.
It is only those converted by the Gospel whom we pretend are influenced by it.—Daily Telegraph.
We found those whom we feared might be interested to withhold the settlement alert and prompt to assist us.—Galt.
Mr. Dombey, whom he now began to perceive was as far beyond human recall.—Dickens.
Those whom it was originally pronounced would be allowed to go.—Spectator.
But this looks as if he has included the original 30,000 men whom he desires 'should be in the country now'.—Times.
We feed children whom we think are hungry.—Times.
The only gentlemen holding this office in the island, whom, he felt sure, would work for the spiritual good of the parish.—Guernsey Advertiser.
These writers evidently think that in 'whom we think are hungry' 'whom' is the object of 'we think'. The relative is in fact the subject of 'are'; and the object of 'we know' is the clause 'who are hungry'; the order of the words is a necessary result of the fact that a relative subject must stand at the beginning of its clause.