English grammar question?

Question

Read the following joke and didn't understand what's wrong about the first sentence:

A girl from Texas and a girl from New York were seated side by side on an airplane. The girl from Texas, being friendly and all, said: “So, where y’all from?”

The girl from New York said: “From a place where they know better than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence.”

The girl from Texas sat quietly for a few moments and then replied: “So, where y’all from, B**CH?”

Can anybody enlight me? So what'd be correct to ask if you wanna know where somebody is living? Is it really "Where do you live?"

Answer 1

We all learned at school that we should not end a sentence with a preposition. But I have always maintained that 'Where do you come from?' or 'Where are you from?' is the exception. I mean, who says 'Whence do you come?'? Nobody.
There is nothing wrong with the first sentence.
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Answer 2

Humor aside, the correct answer to your question is:
“Where are you from?”
This is perfect, idiomatic English, that is, this is English the way it is spoken. The “rule” that sentences should not end in a preposition, if it exists at all, certainly does not apply at all to spoken American English.
"Where do you live?" would be appropriate if you asked the question in the same city where a person lived, or close by, and you were asking precisely WHERE in the city the person lived.

Answer 3

I agree with many of the previous answers, and would like to add that in normal conversation, most of us use phrasing that just sounds right to our ears. If you were writing your doctoral dissertation or a special project status report to President Bu -- er, never mind -- to Sandra Day O'Connor, you should be more formal and use the best wording you could come up with. That might even include ending a sentence with a preposition on occasion. (Sorry, NY girl.)

Oops, perhaps I should've said "...use the best wording with which you could come up."

Answer 4

"Morphologically?" He could propose the form that the verb takes. enable's seem at an occasion sentence: have been I a duck, i could fly out right here rapid. have been right here could be comparable to present or previous annoying form. i can basically think of of "have been you a duck? " it rather is previous annoying. or perhaps he's not speaking approximately this in any respect. or perhaps he skill which you form all different tenses employing factors of the present and previous tenses. So easily i could say that morphologically is the respond on your question. i think which you had to acknowledge a particular morphologically which includes the form of adjustments. yet that's no longer what you asked in any respect. you only want the form of adjustments. Or do you want the names of all of the tenses and examples of each -- somebody has given you that. i'm questioning there would others which you have no longer heard of yet. i can think of of pluperfect.

Answer 5

It's "where do you live", if you want to know were someone lives. "Where are you from" refers to where someone was born. An example is, "i'm from texas (birth place) but i live in new york". Also ya'll is used when referring to more than person.

Answer 6

The technically correct answer is "From where are you ?"

But that is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put !

Answer 7

Where do you live? I am from Texas and you?

Answer 8

um i think where do u live sounds a little odd
maybe even stalkerish


i'd think you'd say, "Where are your from"

you wanna be ghetto then say, "where u finna reside"{

hahaah its all up to you!

Answer 9

Ha!

Answer 10

From where did you come?