The post office from where i sent you the package is down the street.
Here can i use from which or where instead of from where?
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Sign up to join this communityThe post office from where i sent you the package is down the street.
Here can i use from which or where instead of from where?
From where I was standing, I could not see the wreck itself
shows that the construction "from where" is not ungrammatical. The construction, however, is not always idiomatic in current U.S. English.
The post office from where I sent you the package is down the street
is not idiomatic in modern U.S English.
The post office from which I sent you the package is down the street
is idiomatic in modern U.S. English.
The post office whence I sent you the package ...
is grammatical and would have been idiomatic 200 years ago but now is so old-fashioned that many in the U.S. would not understand it.
The post office where I sent you the package ...
is idiomatic but has a completely different meaning because it describes the post office to which the package was sent rather the post office from which it was sent.
[1] The post office from where I sent you the package is down the street.
[2] The post office from which I sent you the package is down the street.
Yes, you can. There's little to choose between the two.
"Where" and "which" both have "post office" as antecedent, and can be represented as "I sent you the package from x post office; x is down the street".
The difference is that in [1] "where" means "from x", though the "from" component is overtly expressed. Both constructions are very formal and most people would prefer the version with a stranded preposition, as in:
[3] The post office where/which I sent you the package from is down the street.