How to Use “Where” Correctly

If you’re writing formally (such as an article or book that you want readers to take seriously), you should restrict “where” to sentences about a physical location. In panel 2 of today’s “Wizard of Id,” I’d change “where” to “in which” if I were writing for publication. (No need to fuss with it if you’re writing informally.)

Here’s a more formal version of the Wizard’s sentence (which is actually a sentence fragment!): The kind of day in which you have no choice but to remain inside like a shut-in.  CORRECT

(If you want to make it a complete sentence, add a subject and verb. I would probably use it is: It is the kind of day in which you have no choice but to remain inside like a shut-in.  CORRECT)