where
Pronunciation: English? [we? (r)]？ ? ? Beautiful? [wer]？ ?
Meaning:
adv？ Where is it; In that place.
conj。 ? In the place of ... ...
Fixed collocation:
Before you know where you are. Immediately, instantly ...
Keep your word. Keep one's promise; Say pay. ...
Where is it? The heart of the matter ...
Where are the difficulties? Where is the difficulty?
Where do you live? crucial point
Usage:
Used to ask for location.
Where is the library?
Where is the library?
When using where to guide the subject clause, it can generally be located directly at the beginning of the sentence.
It doesn't matter where we live.
It doesn't matter where we live.
Used to guide the predicative clause, mainly used as the predicative of the verb be, when the subject of the sentence is usually this or that.
This is where I disagree with the professor.
This is where I disagree with the professor.
When where is used as a relative adverb to guide the attributive clause, its antecedent should be a noun indicating the place, and the relative adverb where is used as an adverbial in the attributive clause.
Is this where it happened?
Did it happen here?
Where is used to guide object clauses, mainly used as the object of verbs.
The book doesn't say where he was born.
The book doesn't say where he was born.
Where is used to guide object clauses, and sometimes it can also be used as the object of prepositions.
We must consider where we can sleep.
We must consider where to rest.
Distinguish between where and where
Both where and which can be used to guide attributive clauses, but they have different functions in attributive clauses. Where is a relative adverb used as adverbial, and which is a relative pronoun used as subject or object.
That's where we used to live.
That's where I used to live.
That is the place we have visited.
That's the place I visited.
Where is the relevant proverb:
Where there is a will, there is a way. Where there is a will, there is a way.
There is no good thing without good things. Without inner beauty, there is no outer beauty.
Where is it? There are reeds and water. Where there are reeds, there is water.
Where is it? The deer was slaughtered, and some of her blood will stay. When a deer dies, there is always blood left.