Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

[tufguy]

Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

Alien technology can zap you and take you miles away from the place you are standing at within fraction of second.


Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

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Alien technology can zap you [STRIKE]and take you[/STRIKE] miles away from the place you are standing [STRIKE]at[/STRIKE] within a fraction of second.

Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

People say both. The first is grammatical. The second is not.

 

[Tdol]

Re: Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

And don't from whence either- it's whence plain and simple, which has the meaning from where without requiring the preposition.

 

[5jj]

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A change from the times of the King James version of the Bible: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm 121&version=KJV

 

[probus]

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And don't people still say from whence it/he/she/you came?

 

[tufguy]

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A change from the times of the King James version of the Bible: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm 121&version=KJV

The first verse shows "From whence".

 

[Rover_KE]

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However many people they hear say 'from whence', learners should be told it's wrong.

 

[5jj]

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The first verse shows "From whence".

That's why I said that things have changed since then!

 

[Tdol]

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A change from the times of the King James version of the Bible: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm 121&version=KJV

You would, wouldn't you? :-D Mind you, anyone who quotes the KJ Bible as an example of how we should be speaking today :2gunfire: And it's whence not from whence and it's not between you and I despite the fact that Shakespeare used it once. I'm getting old and grouchy.

 

[5jj]

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I'm getting old and grouchy.

You've got a long way to go to catch up with this old curmudgeon.

 

[probus]

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You would, wouldn't you? :-D

Does Mandy Rice-Davies apply? :-D

 

[Phaedrus]

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Alien technology can zap you and take you miles away from the place you are standing at within fraction of second.


Do we say a place "where we are standing" or "where we are standing at"?

The noun phrase containing the relative clause with where should be distinguished from the noun phrase containing the zero relative clause:

(1) the place you are standing at
(2) the place where you are standing (*[strike]at[/strike])

In (1), the relative adverb where is neither present nor understood. The noun phrase (1) is equivalent to these:

(1a) the place that you are standing at
(1b) the place which you are standing at
(1c) the place at which you are standing

Both (1) and those three variations of it are grammatical.

 

[Tdol]

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Does Mandy Rice-Davies apply? :-D

She enriched the English language.