where
Pronunciation
[change]- (UK) IPA (key): /ʍɛə(r)/, SAMPA: /WE@(\r)/
- (US) IPA (key): /wɛr/ or /ʍɛr/, SAMPA: /wEr\/ or /WEr\/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Homophones: ware, wear (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Preposition
[change]Preposition |
- (In or to) what place or situation.
- Where do you live?
- Where did the man go?
- I wonder where they will take us to.
- (relative) (In or to) the place or situation in which.
- The room where the people cook the food is not cold.
- Where I'm from, we don't eat much fish.
- I'll go where you go.
- Where people were concerned, his threshold of boredom was low.
- This is where I live.
- That's where you are wrong.
- Stand over here where the light is good.
- Sit where I can see you.
- You'll be right here where you belong.
- You use where to introduce a clause that contrasts with the other parts of the sentence.
- Where Nixon was secretive and suspicious, Ford was relaxed, open and candid.