Re: Some questions.....

En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:

>
> There's no question in 'That's where I want to go to'
Of course not, but there's a relative pronoun, and relative pronouns in English
happen to be identical to question words (except "that" of course).

 and I can't think
> of
> an (even gramatically incorrect) alternative (like 'You would like to
> go
> where to?', but that's a question).
What about "that's the place to where I want to go"? Sounds awckward, but I'm
nearly sure you could find one or two prescriptivist grammars saying that it's
the only correct form :)) (unless they would use "whither" of course :)) ).

Note that I've been taught to say "that's where I want to go" without "to" at
the end. What's the need to add a preposition when the meaning is clear without
it? :))

Christophe.

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