Attraction, in linguistics, is a type of error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another.
This tends to happen in English with subject-verb agreement, especially where the subject is separated from the verb in a complex noun phrase structure.
Take this ungrammatical construction: "Which flowers are the gardener planting"[4] This sentence is ungrammatical because the subject "gardener" is singular, but "are" is plural, which was attracted by the plural noun object phrase "which flowers" that appear just before the verb due to WH-movement.
For example, in the following English sentence, the relative pronoun has the appropriate case, the accusative: The following erroneous sentence, on the other hand, has case attraction: Because the antecedent, "[of] the man", is possessive, the relative pronoun has become possessive as well.
Attraction is a theoretical process in Standard English, but it is common in the Greek of the Septuagint and also occurs in the New Testament.