Clue: River to the English Channel. River to the English Channel is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted over 20 times. There are related clues (shown below).
A Grammar Lesson: Direct and Indirect Objects. An object is the part of a sentence that gives meaning to the subjectâs action of the verb. Alice caught the baseball. A direct object answers the question of who(m) or what.
Now the antecedent (student) is the direct object of the main sentence and should therefore be accusative, but the relative pronoun is the subject in its own clause (who killed) and should therefore be nominative.