大家好，今天在 New York Times看到一句话：
Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, broke
into government buildings yesterday to protest what they falsely claim was a
stolen election.
请问此句后方的 "what they falsely claim was a stolen election"
为什么不是写成： "what they falsely claim to be/as a stolen election"
或是直接把 was 删除， 变成 “what they falsely claim a stolen election"
这样原句里 what 作为插入句，里头不就有两个动词 claim 和 was
我会这样理解，是因为类似的句子像是：
"If she wants to learn to do what she calls 'useful things'...
这里的 what she calls 后面也没加 are。
不知道该怎么理解 "what they falsely claim was" 这样的文法(看起来有2个动词)?
谢谢

protest后面是一个名词子句，故要有主词、动词，而名词子句中what they falsely claim是主词，was是动词

claim和call的用法不是一样。你问的句子的claim只接一个受词(前头的what)，且整个what-clause里头又包了一个子句--共两个子句你有困惑的那句里头的call接[受词(前头的what)+受词补语](我刚查文馨字典)，整个what-clause已经是完整的一个子句，一个动词(calls)已经够了更正: claim的受词是that-clause，不是前头的what。整个的what-clause仍是包含两个子句，只是是另外的结构，有空我另外补充