are grammatically singular but can be conceptually plural such as "army". Case attraction Case attraction is the process by which a relative pronoun takes on (is "attracted to") the case of its antecedent rather than having the case appropriate to its function in the relative clause. For example, in the following English sentence, the relative pronoun has the appropriate case, the accusative: This is the boss of the man whom I met yesterday. The following erroneous sentence, on the other hand, has case attraction: This is the boss of the man whose I met yesterday. Because the antecedent, "[of] the man", is possessive, the relative pronoun has become possessive as well. Attraction is a theoretical process in Standard English, but it is common in the Greek of the Septuagint and also occurs in the New Testament. References Grammar