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I Situation Place Adverb Bre Weə(R Wer Live
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where |
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(adverb) |
| Phonetic |
BrE / weə(r) / NAmE / 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)BrE / weə(r) / NAmE / wer / - 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?
- 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.
- 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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