The phrase "somewhere I belong"

Sorry. It's a clause, not a phrase.

lagatawSorry. It's a clause, not a phrase.

Clauses are phrases too.

It's also a sentence. The natural order would be "I belong somewhere," but the order you use might easily appear in a poem.

In prose, "I know/believe that somewhere I [must] belong" is certainly possible.

- A.

Can I use it this way:

I want to be somewhere I belong.

AvangiClauses are phrases too.

Uhmmm...My high school English teacher said a phrase shouldn't have a subject and a verb at the same time.

But my grammar book here says "when S + V" and "where S + V" can be adverb phrases. So...my high school teacher was probably making it simpler and easier for us.

lagatawCan I use it this way:

I want to be somewhere I belong.

I wouldn't hesitate to use it that way casually.

To raise the register a bit, I'd probably say, "I want to be somewhere where I [can] belong."

Others may comment on the extent to which "where" may be ellipsed.

- A.

Yeah...this may be really casual.

Cuz when you look at it, the phrase "somewhere (where) I belong" here functions as a noun (entity) where "somewhere" is a noun and "where I belong", a relative adverb.
In this case, however, what would the noun function be doing in the syntax "I want to be + N"? "I want to be + N" requires that the N be of the same value as (or be identical to) the