Timeline for to which = where?
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| Mar 25, 2020 at 10:25 | comment | added | Greybeard | @user067531 "Collins is an unreliable source?" Of course, I did not say that. I said that the OED is far more reliable. -- "I’d not say so, sorry." I gladly accept your apologies; you would do well to accept the OED. "Don’t know on what grounds you say that. My grounds are given in my comment above at (1) and (2). | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 10:06 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Greybeard - Collins is an unreliable source? I’d not say so, sorry. Don’t know on what grounds you say that. I comfortably stick to their definition of where as a pronoun in the examples they make. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 9:48 | comment | added | Greybeard | @user067531 You have used the wrong verb - "to appear". In fact Collins does disagree and is wrong. The Oxford English Dictionary is far more authoritative; far better researched than Collins, and is clear that "where" is an adverb. 1. If "where" were a pronoun, it would have a referent - it doesn't. 2. if (a) "in which" (preposition + substantive) is an adverbial phrase, and (b) where can substitute for in which, what does that make "where"? | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 6:56 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Greybeard - Collins appears to disagree. | |
| Mar 24, 2020 at 22:43 | comment | added | Greybeard | @user067531 BillJ is right: Here, there and where are all adverbs --Here = at this point in time/place,etc. It is locative, i.e. it expresses “place”. -- There at that point in time/space, etc. It is locative, i.e. it expresses “place”; == And where at,which point in time/space, etc. It is locative, i.e. it expresses “place”. | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 5:31 | comment | added | user 66974 | @BillJ - there is more evidence in favor of being a pronoun in this case than an adverb, sorry. | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 8:31 | comment | added | BillJ | Swan is wrong, but then by his own admission he is not a qualified grammarian. See the link to the Oxford dictionary that I gave you. | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 7:40 | comment | added | user 66974 | @BillJ - ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133792/… | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 5:53 | comment | added | BillJ | They are wrong! It has a preposition meaning "in/at/to some place", so there is no logical reason to call it a pronoun. The Oxford gets it right. See here: link. | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 5:41 | comment | added | user 66974 | @BillJ both Collins and Cambridge dictionaries define the above usage as a relative pronoun, google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/it/amp/… - as well as other dictionaries. | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 5:32 | comment | added | BillJ | Actually, "where" is a relative adverb. | |
| Jun 28, 2019 at 19:39 | history | answered | user 66974 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |