@check: this sentence needs to be checked. It doesn't make much sense for me. I would write: Is there where it happened? Or, Is that what it happened. Thank you.
The current English sentence is fine.
It means: "Is that the place where a certain thing (eg an accident) happened?".
In sentence 3129485 above "that" is a demonstratiev pronoun which replaces a noun phrase, eg "the place where".
There are examples on google of "Is there were it happened?" being used, but I personally wouldn't say it. If I were to use "there" in this context I would say "Did it happen there?"
Similarly with "Is that what it happened?" there are a couple of examples on google but I consider it wrong and would never say it.
Thank you for the explanation. I wanted to write: Is that what happened? Anyway, thank you.
> I wanted to write: Is that what happened?
"Is that what happened?" is an OK sentence, but has a different meaning to the sentence above "Is that where it happened?" as it doesn't relate to the location where the incident in question occurred.
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