I don't have any place to go.
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Can you please explain?
Since go somewhere becomes don't have anywhere to go, shouldn't go to a place become don't have any place to go to?
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Is it wrong to add to or just redundant?
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"Going to" is natural, if redundant.
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It's not wrong, but not compulsory.
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I'd stop short of calling it wrong but I don't think it's good.
I'll point out that this is probably an example of American English, in which some speakers use any place and some place to substitute for anywhere and somewhere. British speakers don't tend to do that.
I'll point out that this is probably an example of American English, in which some speakers use any place and some place to substitute for anywhere and somewhere. British speakers don't tend to do that.
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Both choices are fine, but the syntax is different.
If you use "any place to go," the infinitival relative clause modifying "place" has a silent relative adverb ("where").
If you use "any place to go to," the infinitival relative clause modifying "place" has a silent relative pronoun ("which").
Compare: I don't have any place to which to go.
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Silent as opposed to non-silent.
Silent like the that or which which many would suppose to be tacitly present in a noun phrase with a zero relative clause like the point I made.
If the noun phrase is changed to the point that I made or the point which I made, the that or the which is no longer silent.
Similarly, in finite relatives with relative adverbs (viz., the one in the place where I went yesterday), we have that- and zero-relative correlates:
the place that I went yesterday
the place I went yesterday
We also have a correlate with which, in which correlate the relativized element is no longer a prepositional phrase but a noun phrase, and to is needed:
the place which I went to yesterday
Or with Pied Piping:
the place to which I went yesterday
Similarly, we can have the nonfinite relatives with a tacit relative adverb (any place to go) or a tacit relative pronoun (any place to go to).
In the latter case, we can have Pied Piping, and, when we do, the relative pronoun, though perhaps not noisy, is no longer silent:
any place to which to go
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