[EngliPatrick]

Mesmark,

After further research, I found out you were correct that my "where" sentence would be better classified as a relative clause. It's just that 'where' isn't one of the main relative pronouns.


Also, I found this out about embedded questions over at ESL GOLD website: "An embedded question is a part of a sentence that would be a question if it were on its own, but is not a question in the context of the sentence."

So, applying that meaning to my 'where' sentence, if I stripped everything from the sentence it would read, "where my house was" and that isn't a question, so naturally it would fall into the relative clause category.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction...

[mesmark]

Quote EngliPatrick

So, applying that meaning to my 'where' sentence, if I stripped everything from the sentence it would read, "where my house was" and that isn't a question, so naturally it would fall into the relative clause category.

Stripped down you'd still need to look at it in question form. "Where was my house?"

Then you'd need to dissern whether in the context, that was the question the speaker was asking, or whether the speaker was asking a question at all.

What I mean to say is, was it an indirect way of asking a question - - > embedded question
Where was my house

or information - -> relative clause
the place where my house was