Is the use of 'in where' correct and natural in the following sentence?
In where I live, people usually eat with their bare hands. (This is not the case. Just an example sentence.)
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Asked for this: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/67389/…– BCLCCommented Oct 25, 2022 at 4:20
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1@BCLC: "In the area where I live, there are no such places at all. Why is this kind of place so common in anime?"– Old BrixtonianCommented Oct 25, 2022 at 4:30
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"Where I live" or "In here, where I live" or "In XYZ, where I live" sounds more natural.– banuyayiCommented Oct 25, 2022 at 4:41
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@banuyayi - "In here, where I live" would, probably, refer to a room, or building, or cave (and even then it sounds a bit unusual, unless referring to things inside the room/building/cave/etc.)... "Here, in London, where I live..." would be used for a city/town/etc..– GreenonlineCommented Oct 25, 2022 at 18:43
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No. That's neither correct nor natural. We would probably say,
"Where I live, people usually eat with their bare hands."
You might be thinking of in which. In formal English we might say,
"The town in which I was born had no hospital."
But generally we say, "The town where I was born..." or, informally, "The town I was born in..."
answered Oct 25, 2022 at 4:46
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"In the town where I was born..." also works if you modify the rest of that sentence a bit - e.g. the first line of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. For this example: "In the town where I was born, there was no hospital." Commented Oct 25, 2022 at 17:40
"Where" already incorporates the "in" meaning, so there is no need to repeat it.
You need either "where I live, people usually eat with their bare hands." or "In the (place or something) where I live, people usually eat with their bare hands."
