"to which" or just "which" ?

SharadHi All,

Museum has a special exhibit of Egyptian artifacts, [do we need 'to' here] which the Scouts took a field trip to see.

According one of the testprep books, sentence is correct without 'to'..
Would appreciate if one can explain whether 'to' is needed..

thanks,
Sharad

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Yes, the Scouts took a trip to see the exhibit (= which).

If we get rid of "to see", which of the following is correct ?

We took a trip to Museum that has exhbition special artifacts.

Museum to which we took a trip has exhibition of special artifacts.

or
Museum which we took a trip to has exhibition of special artifacts.

Your original sentence should read "we took a trip to the Museum that exhibits special artifacts".

The most natural way in your following sentences is the second one (if you add "the" before "Museum"), but then you can say: "the Museum we took a trip to exhibits special artifacts".

Hi Pieanne,

Thanks for clarifying.. Just a quick question in this context, to make sure i haven't got it wrong ..

No, no "to where". But you also need some commas: "Pittsburgh, where he went to, is a place full of bridges". "Where he went to" is not qualifying, since there's only one Pittsburgh, so you need commas.

But your original sentence <He went to Pittsburgh, a place where there are lots of bridges> sounds better than the other one, at least to my ears.

The museum has an exhibit of artifacts (to?) which the Scouts took a field trip to see.

It appears to me that you are trying to relativize "exhibit" twice, using this as the underlying structure:
The Scouts took a field trip to the exhibit to see the exhibit.

First try.
And you are having trouble deciding whether to relativize the first instance in one of th

'Which' is fine, the 'to' really isn't necessary in this context.. I can't really think of an example that would use the 'to'.