In the sentence below, can I change which to where?
We often go to visit our friends in Bristol, which is not very far away.
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Sign up to join this communityIn the sentence below, can I change which to where?
We often go to visit our friends in Bristol, which is not very far away.
We often go to visit our friends in Bristol, which is not very far away.
Can I change which to where? No, here we can't change.
We often go to visit our friends in Bristol, which is not very far away.
This sentence means that we often go to visit our friends in Bristol, and Bristol is not very far away.
The relativizer - where - doesn't function like the way relativizer - which - functions. Consider the following sentence -
We often go to visit Bristol, where our friends live.
we often go to visit Bristol. and our friends lives [in Bristol]. You see where replaces that in along with the antecedent Bristol. But if we had to use which in place of where we would have had to retain that in in our sentence to make it grammatical.
We often go to visit Bristol, which our friends live in.
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We often go to visit Bristol, in which our friends live.
I don't think you can use where. If you were to use "where", you should change the sentence structure. Maybe like this: We often go to visit our friends' house in Bristol, which is not very far away.