Saturday, February 28, 2015

grammar - regarding the use of "them"


"What they refer to as the habit of dreaming by the Aborigines, is not what the Aborigines themselves believe them to be."




"Them" is referring to dreams. Is the use of 'them' in the second part of the sentence grammatically correct since "habit of dreaming" seems singular to me.




"They" is "Westerners"






Note: The quote in the original version of the question had What Europeans . . . rather than What they . . .

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