Prepostions in front of relative clause?

Question

Excuse me. Can anyone teach me how to use the relative clause with prepositions in front of it?
E.g.: Jack built the house in which I grew up. (Correct)
If I say: Jack built the house which I grew up. Is it Ok?

Answer 1

"Jack built the house in which I grew up" is indeed the correct literary form, but in colloquial English we are far more likely to say "Jack built the house which I grew up in". Some people still maintain that this form is incorrect because "you should not end a sentence with a preposition". In fact, however, the word "in" is used adverbially in this position and is perfectly acceptable and correct modern English.

"Jack built the house which I grew up" is not correct and, if we take a different example, such a construction could change the meaning: for example "Jack build the house in which I painted" is completely different to "Jack built the house which I painted".

Answer 2

1. Whichever one you use, there has to be "in" there somewhere. You don't grow up a house, you grow up IN a house.

2. The rule is that you never end a sentence with a preposition (in this case, "in"), so it should be "Jack built the house in which I grew up."

3. You don't HAVE to follow this rule: to say "Jack built the house I grew up in" makes sense conventionally and grammatically. In fact, most people agree that the rule is pointless. It doesn't add anything to the sentence - and it doesn't always make sense. As Winston Churchill famously said (making fun of the rule): "bad grammar is something up with which we will not put!"

Just as an aside, if you're interested in why the rule came to be in the first place since it's pointless: some time ago, scholars decided that Latin was the "purest" language, so English should follow its grammar. Of course, they're separate languages, so it doesn't always work! That is also why they said you should never split an infinitive, which is also a pointless rule.

Answer 3

"Jack built the house in which I grew up." is correct.
Your second sentence is incorrect, as it needs a preposition to connect the house with your growing up. You could use "where" as an alternative. "Jack built the house where I grew up."

You could also turn the sentence around and make the house the subject of the sentence. "Jack built the house in which (or where) I grew up."

http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_relative_define.htm

Answer 4

The second sentence is incorrect. You need the "in" to give enough information to be understood. If you said, "Jack built the house which I grew up," it would be unclear because it is incomplete.

Here is a site that might help:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslhpb/grammar/lecture_11/relative.html

Answer 5

No
It should be in which or where.
The second sentence might mean I developed the house built by Jack.

Answer 6

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