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Box Jewellery Disappeared Begins Relative Clause House Shakespeare

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Keyword where
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence The box where she kept her jewellery in had disappeared.
Correct Sentence The box where she kept her jewellery had disappeared.
Cloze Error Sentence The box where she kept her jewellery [[in]] had disappeared.
Cloze Sentence The box where she kept her jewellery [[ ]] had disappeared.
Cloze Answer _
Choices in | _
Explanation

When where begins a relative clause, it is not followed by in, at, for, etc: 'We went to see the house where Shakespeare lived.'

Compare: 'The box that/which she kept her jewellery in had disappeared.'

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