<p>Test #9 Question #17 in the Blue Book</p>
<p>The Red Cross workers had no expected the (a) [refugees from] the flooded plain (b) [to be] as desperate and as undernourished (c) [as those] whom they (d) [had seen] earlier in the week. (e) [No error]</p>
<p>I chose (d) [had seen] due to the whom before it. From my (apparently wrong) understanding of whom, it is used to denote a party who is having an action done to it. So I would have changed [had seen] to [had seen to] in order to show that the subject "as those" has an action being done to it.</p>
<p>Can someone inform me why my logic does not work?</p>
<p>Bumping, really want to know the answer.</p>
<p>Answer is A.</p>
<p>Refugees “in” is what it should be.</p>
<p>SAT is a ***** with these prepositions.</p>
<p>The subject of the clause at the end of the sentence is “they.” “They” had seen “them,” where “They” is the Red Cross workers, and “them” is the refugees. The word “them” is then replaced by “whom.” The entire clause “whom they had seen earlier in the week” is in apposition with “those.” “Those” is not the object of “had seen.”</p>
<p>I believe that this is “no error.” The refugees might have come from the flooded plain. They would not necessarily have to be in the flooded plain.</p>