Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
Mike really wonders where you visited in England last week.
I thought about using where for an indication of what place, but I am not sure whether it is correct or not to use where in this context.
Learn English – use `where` with the verb `visit`
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Best Answer
There is no fault with using wonder + conjunction, like in
My concern is elsewhere: what you mean with "where" is "what place" ("he" wants a name) or "which place" ("he" already knows a list of places and he wants to know the one).
I believe that:
is not necessarily wrong, but it would perhaps leave the person wondering for a split second if they were hearing it, and frown slightly if they were reading it. The problem is that visit introduces an accusative object (one visits a place), not an adverb + location (one is in a place). That is why I would see the construction where you visited as slightly abusive.
So it would be more appropriate (as well as precise) if you said:
But it remains a matter of taste and usage. Perhaps there are regions where your version is perfectly idiomatic in spoken language; and no doubt eminent writers already used it?