Sentence: That is the company where I want to work for.

[Sweetpumpkin]

Hi,

I have a questions on the relative adverb, "where".

That is the company where I want to work for.

I think the sentence above is wrong. If I want to use 'where', I think 'for' in the last part of the sentence should be omitted because a relative adverb clause must take a whole sentence. I think 'where' must be replaced with 'which' and 'that'.

What do you think?

Thank you in advance,
sweetpumpkin

[Jamie (K)]

You're right. Think of it this way: A preposition like "for" has to have an object somewhere in the sentence. The object has to be some kind of noun phrase (such as a noun, a pronoun, a noun clause, etc.). Noun phrases aren't replaced by adverbs, but by pronouns. Since the clause has a relative adverb and not a relative pronoun, it means that "for" has no object.