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Liveinjapan Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Where / what + destination

Hi everyone

At the ratest TOEIC test, I heard 'What is your destination?'

Can I also say 'Where is your destination?'. To me, this is more natural. Which is better?

Thanks
LiJ
  

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Hi,

At the latest TOEIC test, I heard 'What is your destination?' This sounds fine to me.

Can I also say 'Where is your destination?'. Instead of this, with 'where' I'd say 'Where are you going?'

Best wishes, Clive
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"Where is your destination?" is not natural, no. "your destination" can refer to all sorts of places. Sometimes a person's destination is Detroit; sometimes it's Sydney; sometimes it's Bogota. What the questioner wants to know is which of various places it could be (i.e. What?) is the one that is now your destination. (If your destination is Birmingham, for example, asking Where is
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Thank you all!

Both of your explanations are very helpful.

Where is your destination? is asking Where is Birmingham?

I understand!

LiJ
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