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La oficina donde trabajo está cerca de mi casa.

La oficina donde trabajo está cerca de mi casa.
The office where I work is close to my house.
From Lesson 97:People after prepositions (quien, quienes)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about La oficina donde trabajo está cerca de mi casa.

Why do we use donde here instead of a relative pronoun like que or quien?
Because la oficina is a place, we use donde (where) to link it to the rest of the sentence. While your current lesson focuses on quien and quienes for people, donde is the natural choice for physical locations where an action happens.
Why is está used instead of es? The office's location is permanent!
This is a very common trap! Even though the office isn't going to move, Spanish always uses estar for the physical location of people, places, and things. You only use ser for the location of an event, like a party or a meeting.
Why do we need the word de after cerca?
In Spanish, cerca de works together as a set phrase meaning 'close to' or 'near'. You need de whenever you mention the specific place it is close to, like mi casa. If you just wanted to say 'the office is close' without mentioning your house, you would drop the de and just say está cerca.
Why isn't there a subject pronoun like yo before trabajo?
The word trabajo is the yo (I) form of the verb trabajar (to work). Because the ending already tells us exactly who is working, Spanish speakers usually drop the yo unless they want to add extra emphasis.

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