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rosarios

Mexico

I was reading a story and there was a sentence that said "when the minivan he was traveling was hit" for me it should be "when the minivan WHERE he was traveling was hit", can I omitte the word WHERE and is that word an adverb or a relative pronoun? can somebody helpme

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LotteUK1

United Kingdom

The sentence you give is not correct. It should read 'when the minivan he was traveling in was hit'.

You are right that it's a relative clause, but the relative pronoun would be 'which' (the minvan is a thing not a place) i.e 'when the minvan which he was traveling in was hit'

Yes, you can omit the relative pronoun because it's not the subject of the second clause. For example, in the sentence 'the man who loves me', 'who' is the subject so cannot be omitted.

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