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Qingqing Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

somewhere where

0How to analyze the following struction?02br
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00I'd like to live somewhere where the sun shines all year long.02br
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00somewhere 01i00adv02i00. Is the clause "where..." an attributive one?0-
  

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0 Hi, Qingqing02br 02br 00"Where the sun shines all year around" is an adverbial relative clause that modifies "somewhere". You might have quite a reasonable question: what is the antecedent of "where"? The trickiness lies in the word "somewhere".

— Paco2004

  • 0 Hi, Qingqing02br 02br 00"Where the sun shines all year around" is an adverbial relative clause that modifies "somewhere".
  • You might have quite a reasonable question: what is the antecedent of "where"?
  • The trickiness lies in the word "somewhere".
  • It's true "somewhere" is classed lexically as an adverb.
  • But "somewhere" has a noun-like function and can be an antecedent of a relative clause.
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0 Hi, Qingqing02br
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0 Thank you, Paco. What about "I will move anywhere I can get a job"? 0-
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01cite10Qingqing12cite10Thank you, Paco. What about "I will move anywhere I can get a job"?12blockquote
10Sorry Qingqing. I can't get what you are asking about by saying "what about". Are you asking about the meaning of the sentence? Or are you asking about the structure of the sentence? Or are you saying the sentenc
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01cite10Qingqing12cite10Thank you, Paco. What about "I will move anywhere I can get a job"?12blockquote
10I see! Now I understand what you are asking about! You need "where" after "anywhere", in my opinion.02br
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01cite10Paco200412cite10Hi, Qingqing12br
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10"Where the sun shines all year around" is an adverbial relative clause that modifies "somewhere". You might have quite a reasonable question: what is the antecedent of "where"? The 11b10trickiness12b10 lies in the word "somewhere". It's true "some
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11cite20Paco200422cite20Hi, Qingqing22br
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20"Where the sun shines all year around" is an adverbial relative clause that modifies "somewhere". You might have quite a reasonable question: what is the antecedent of "where"? The 21b20
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21cite30Paco200432cite30Hi, Qingqing32br
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30"Where the sun shines all year around" is an adverbial relative clause that modifies "somewhere". You might
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0 Maybe I should have been more correct. I meant "the trickiness of QQ's sentence" by the first "the trickiness". "Tricks" are deceitful conducts bad boys would do. 02br
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01cite10Paco200412cite10Maybe I should have been more correct. I meant "the trickiness of QQ's sentence" by the first "the trickiness". "Tricks" are deceitful conducts bad boys would do. 12br
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10Thanks.0-
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11cite20Qingqing22cite20Thank you, Paco. What about "I will move anywhere I can get a job"?22blockquote
20Sorry Qingqing. I can't get what you are asking about by saying "what about". Are you asking about the meaning of the sentence? Or are yo
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