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sejpdw
04-29-2007, 09:50 PM
In the following sentence, "on which" can be replaced by "where"?

" He threw away the scripts on which I've been working for three days."

Lucretia
04-30-2007, 08:26 PM
I think we can't, but I'm not a native speaker.

Rusty
05-01-2007, 05:35 PM
I think we can't, but I'm not a native speaker.
Lucretia's right. If you replace "in/on which" with "where" there must be some reference to location. Example: This is the cell in which/where the prisoner was held.