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[dido4]

On the right side is the industrial area, where is on river side and near two roads.

Q:The sentence above is not right (Copied from a book). It said we cannot put "where" in the sentence, and we cannot put "," in front of the word where. I don't quite understand. What's wrong in the sentence? Please rewrite it for me and tell me what might be the reasons. Thank you.


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1.Sorry, I rewrote the sentence.
2.IanT, thanks for your reply.

[IanT]

It's hard to say, because the last part of the sentence: "on river sinear two roads" makes no sense to me at all.

But maybe the issue is that "the industrial area" is the subject of "is". In that case you would need "which"

For example:

On the right side is the industrial area, which is not very nice.

If the subject is different in the second half, and "the industrial area" is just the location of the action, you can use "where."

For example:

On the right side is the industrial area, where bad things happen!

I hope that helps.

The part about the comma seems strange. Sometimes it depends if the relative clause is "defining" i.e. tells us which one something is, or "non-defining" i.e. just adds extra information.

Examples:

Defining: "I like the park which has ducks in it."

Non-defining: "The park, which was built in 1940, is going to be closed next week."

As in the examples, non-defining clauses always have commas, and defining ones don't. But it makes no difference which relative pronoun we use. And it's hard to tell what kind of clause it is in the example, because, as I said, it makes no sense.

Again, hope helps,
Ian
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