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Cat desk Posted 3 years ago
Grammar

'That' vs 'where'

Is there any difference between the following sentences?

1- The restaurant that my cousin works at is really expensive.

2-The restaurant where my cousin works is really expensive.

  

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There's no semantic difference, but the syntax is not quite the same. [1] The restaurant [ that my cousin works at ___ ] is really expensive. [2] The restaurant [ where my cousin works ] is really expensive .

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  • There's no semantic difference, but the syntax is not quite the same.
  • [1] The restaurant [ that my cousin works at ___ ] is really expensive.
  • [2] The restaurant [ where my cousin works ] is really expensive .
  • In [1] "that" is object of the preposition "at", as shown by the gap notation '___'.
  • In [2] "where" is an adjunct of place, where the "at" component is contributed by "where" together with its spatial location function.
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There's no semantic difference, but the syntax is not quite the same.

[1] The restaurant [that my cousin works at ___ ] is really expensive.

[2] The restaurant

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