Breakdown of El banco donde trabaja el guardia está cerca.
el banco
the bank
cerca
close / near
trabajar
to work
el guardia
the guard
Questions & Answers about El banco donde trabaja el guardia está cerca.
This lesson is about using que (that/which). Could I use que here instead of donde?
Not on its own. Que means 'that' or 'which'. If you said el banco que trabaja el guardia, it would literally mean 'the bank that the guard works', missing the concept of 'in' or 'at'. Because you are describing the location where an action happens, you use donde. You could technically say en el que ('in which'), but donde is much simpler and more common here.
Why is the word order trabaja el guardia ('works the guard') instead of el guardia trabaja?
Wait, why is it el guardia? Doesn't the 'a' at the end make it feminine?
Why do we use está cerca instead of es cerca?