What is an example of "where" in an adverb clause?

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All the sentences I can think of are anything but an adverb clause. For example:
"Where I'm going is none of your business." (A noun clause as the subject)
"No one knows where he is." (A noun clause as the object)
"It's interesting where these things have come from." (A noun clause as an adjective complement)
"This is where I want to be." (A noun clause as a subject complement)
"This is the park where we first met." (An adjective clause)
"She was surprised by where I had gotten the magazine." (A noun clause as the object of the preposition)
Can you please make an example of an adverb clause with "where"?
Thank you

BillJ · Answer

[1] [Where I'm going] is none of your business.
[2] No one knows [where he is].
[3] It's interesting [where these things have come from].
[4] This is [where I want to be].
[5] This is the park [where we first met].
[6] She was surprised by [where I had gotten the magazine].

The bracketed expressions in [1] [2] and [6] are subordinate interrogative clauses (embedded questions) functioning respectively as subject, complement of "know", and complement of "by".
[3] is an extrapostion construction in which the subordinate clause is an extraposed subject. The basic non-extraposed equivalent is "Where these things have come from is interesting", where the subordinate clause is an interrogative.
[4] is a fused relative construction in which "where I want to be" is a noun phrase as subjective predicative complement of "be".
[5] is a relative clause modifying "park".
Note that in [5] "where" functions as an adjunct (your adverbial) of place in the relative clause, though it's a PP, not a clause.
Incidentally, I would strongly recommend dropping the term 'noun clause'. The classification of finite subordinate clauses is based on their internal form rather than spurious analogies with the parts of speech.

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