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1.The party to which I went to is interesting.
2.The party which I went to is interesting.

Are the above sentences both correct?

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No.

#1 has one 'to' too many.

As the party is in the past, you need 'was'.
 

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No.

#1 has one 'to' too many.

As the party is in the past, you need 'was'.

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Do you mean "The party to which I went was interesting." is correct? Is it correct to say "The party which I went to was interesting."?
 

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Yes and yes.
 

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Hello.

Can we say: "The party, where I was, was intresting." ?

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You can say that, Boris, but it's not how a native speaker would ever say it.
 

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Native speakers would say...

The party I went to was interesting

...or maybe...

The party that I went to was interesting

The Queen of England and a few of her close friends might say...

The party to which I went was interesting

The textbooks tell you that it's OK to use 'which' in defining relative clauses but to modern ears it sounds overly formal, perhaps even wrong. If you want to learn about when you can omit the relative pronoun ( which/that ), this is the first thing that came up on Google which explains it pretty well.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/relative-clauses-%E2%80%93-defining-relative-clauses
 

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Native speakers would say...

The party I went to was interesting

...or maybe...

The party that I went to was interesting

The Queen of England and a few of her close friends might say...

The party to which I went was interesting

The textbooks tell you that it's OK to use 'which' in defining relative clauses but to modern ears it sounds overly formal, perhaps even wrong. If you want to learn about when you can omit the relative pronoun ( which/that ), this is the first thing that came up on Google which explains it pretty well.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/relative-clauses-%E2%80%93-defining-relative-clauses

Thanks a lot, Pangus.

quoted: When the relative pronoun is the object, it can be omitted.

"The woman who lives next door works in a bank." In the said sentence, "The woman " is the subject, would native speakers omit the "who" in informal spoken English? i.e The woman lives next door, works in a bank.










 

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The woman is the subject of the verb 'live'. The object is 'next door'. So no, you need the 'who'.
 

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...would native speakers omit the "who" in informal spoken English? i.e The woman lives next door, works in a bank.

No, but you could say 'The woman next door works in a bank'.
 
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