"Hawaii is the island that plants are green all the year round." Do native English speakers say like this?
Hawaii is the island that plants are green all the year round.
One English teacher I know—he's not a native English speaker—argues this sentence is grammatically okay since 'that' can replace the relative adverb 'where' in the sentence, which I don't agree with at all.
According to Practical English Usage by Michael Swan, 'where' is often replaced by 'that' or dropped in an informal style after somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere and place but not after other words.
I don't think 'that' is as versatile as he thinks.
Top Answer/Comment:
that is not a locative.
If your clause requires a locative, use where or on|in which.
Hawaii is an island where pineapples grow.
Hawaii is an island on which pineapples grow.
This is the greenhouse in which our prize-winning tomato plants are grown.
This is also valid but the reference is to an entity not to a locus:
Hawaii is an island that has pineapples growing on it.
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