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Ask for help > Where are you from?
Where are you from?
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margaretha
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Where are you from?
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I have a question of my own.
Last lesson, one of my beginners asked me whether it would be correct to ask: From where are you?
Now, I know that Where are you from? is used in all of our students� books, but somehow I am not sure how to answer his question. Can somebody help? I have heard From where are you?, but it seems so German to me.
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23 Nov 2008
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Damielle
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As far as I now, question words go at the very beginning and prepositions at the end
Examples:
Where are you from?
Who do you live with?
Where are you going to? |
23 Nov 2008
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margaretha
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Thanks, Damielle. I�m going to report that back to him. |
23 Nov 2008
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Tere-arg
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Hi,
I understand both uses are grammatically correct, but we use the prep at the end in informal language, that is, spoken language.
Anyway, bear in mind you cannot use a prep before who. You have to use whom, instead.
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23 Nov 2008
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wolfy
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From where are you? is correct but nobody besides foreigners use it. In spanish the prpeositions goes at the begining, that�s why spanish learners wil do it. �
The native speakers on the other hand will say Where are you from? with the proposition at the end.
Who do you work for? or For who do you work? �etc... |
23 Nov 2008
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