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[boboy234567]

He wished to die in the country to where his son belonged .



Should I put " to" at the end of this sentence?


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[Rusty]

He wished to die in the country to where his son belonged .



Should I put " to" at the end of this sentence?


Thanks
He wished to die in the country where his son belonged. (No "to" at all).

[Marius Hancu]

He wished to die in the country to which his son belonged.

448 on "country to which she belonged"
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[Eddie88]

He wished to die in the country to where his son belonged .



Should I put " to" at the end of this sentence?



Where is an adverbial pronoun that heads a relative clause. It is used to replace 'to which' or 'which...to':

He wished to die in the country to which his son belonged.

He wished to die in the country which his son belonged to.


To which=where

So no 'to' is needed.


The same applies for in which:

In which=where


This is the house, in which I used to live.

This is the house, which I used to live in.

This is the house, where I used to live.

[OddThomas]

Not to be morbid, but while we are on the topic of death, and too many prepositions, here's a classic from the Paul McCartney song, "Live and Let Die. (http://www.answers.com/topic/live-and-let-die-song)"But if this ever changin' world
In which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say, "Live and let die, live and let die"
--Paul McCartney & Wings, 1973
Maybe Liverpudlians speak like that all the time--I don't know.:) But you'd think the first in could have been left out without ruining the song.

(Guns N' Roses released their version in 1991.)