The children where you live

[DayDayDream]

The children where you live can see exactly how all this is

Questions:
What kind of clause does "where" refer？ and I feel strange about its position, is its position right?

 

[Hermione Golightly]

I call it a defining relative and the Cambridge on-line dictionary seems to back this up. In this case it would be 'in which'.

Relative pronouns: when, where and why​

In informal language, we often use where, when or why to introduce defining relative clauses instead of at which, on which or for which.

where

places

I know a restaurant where the food is excellent. (… a restaurant at which the food is excellent)

 

[grassy]

Where = at the place that.

 

[DayDayDream]

I call it a defining relative and the Cambridge on-line dictionary seems to back this up. In this case it would be 'in which'.

I don't understand that "where" is used to modify "children", I can understand "where" modifies "restaurant"

 

[Glasguensis]

Which children ? The children at the place where you live

 

[DayDayDream]

Which children ? The children at the place where you live

I see, so the antecedent "place" can be omitted.

 

[Glasguensis]

Yes.

 

[billj]

Questions:
What kind of clause does "where" refer？ and I feel strange about its position, is its position right?

The children [where you live] can see exactly how all this is.

Modern grammar classifies this "where" as a preposition, here functioning in a 'fused' relative construction modifying the head noun "children".

It has a paraphrase containing noun+integrated relative: "the children in/at the place where you live ...".