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I Situation Place Adverb Weə(R Wer Live Point

Word3 where
WordType (adverb)
Phonetic /weə(r)/ /wer/
Example
  • where do you live?
  • i wonder where they will take us to.
  • where (= at what point) did i go wrong in my calculations?
  • where (= in what book, newspaper, etc.) did you read that?
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where

(adverb)/weə(r)/ /wer/
  1. in or to what place or situation
    • Where do you live?
    • I wonder where they will take us to.
    • Where (= at what point) did I go wrong in my calculations?
    • Where (= in what book, newspaper, etc.) did you read that?
    • Just where (= to what situation or final argument) is all this leading us?
  2. used after words or phrases that refer to a place or situation to mean ‘at, in or to which’
    • It's one of the few countries where people drive on the left.
  3. the place or situation in which
    • We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years.

    Word Origin

    • Old English hwǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waar and German wo.
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