tarek99
The first political passengers on modern railroad cars were a president, a senator, and a governor,
who traveled to Washington, D.C.
together on the Liberty Express in 1907.
The above sentence is correct. My question here is which noun exactly does "who" refer to in this sentence? thanks
who - can refer to passengers OR governor.
The keyword is together. If it referring to governor - TOGETHER is illogical.
So it must be referring to passengers.
But just in case the statement were something like:
The first political passengers on modern railroad cars were a president, a senator, and a governor,
who likes to travel.
who = governor.( as likes is singular and cannot connect a plural subject to rest of sentence )
But again if the statement were:
The first political passenger on modern railroad cars was a governor,
who likes to travel.
In this case there is no confusion as who = passenger = governor.