Question

这句英文有没有语法错误

The employers, whom it is impossible to contact, mostly paid the oversea employees in cash。
最好说一下原因

Answer 1

有中间的定语从句应该改为who is impossible to contact.
因为先行词是employers,所以关系代词应该用who或whom，但是现在这两者用法要求在从句中并不是特别严格，所以无所谓。
原句中是把it看成是一个形式主语，真正的主语为to contact whom.还原之后变成The employers, to contact whom is impossible, 这时强调的内容就变成了“联系某人”而不是前面的先行词,定语从句就失去了原有的修饰先行词功能，而且这样说把句子变的累赘。所以是有问题的。

Answer 2

The employers, whom it is impossible to contact ,paid the oversea employees mostly in cash.

我觉的这句话这样说较合适,其实原句没有严格意义上的语法错误,感觉有点别扭,把mostly的位置换一下相对通顺一点.

Answer 3

it是多余的，应该去掉。因为whom is impossible to contact是修饰The employers的，是个定语从句，所以不需要加上it.

改：The employers, whom is impossible to contact, mostly paid the oversea employees in cash.

Answer 4

whom后面的it应该去掉。这是个非限制性定语从句，whom是做contact的宾语指代the employers,如果再用it就犯了重复的错误了。

Answer 5

有，应该是“to contact with”,这是定语从句定语中介词不能省略