wherever

«wherever» in Mova's school dictionary: In any place or every place: sit wherever you like — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

conjunction; adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) In any place or every place: sit wherever you like. tree →

2) No matter where: wherever you go, I will find you. tree →

3) In a question, it shows surprise: wherever did you find that? tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, "wherever" gives a free choice of place ("put it wherever there is room") or says something is true in every place ("wherever she goes, her dog follows"). In science, we might say plants grow wherever there is light and water. In stories, it adds a feeling of searching or loyalty. Phrases: "wherever you like", "wherever possible" (whenever you can), "or wherever".

examples

• Sit wherever you like. tree →
• Wherever I go, my little sister follows me. tree →
• Wildflowers grow wherever there is sun and rain. tree →
• Wherever did you find that old map? tree →
• Recycle wherever possible. tree →
• We can have the picnic wherever there is shade. tree →
• Wherever you are in the world, the sun rises in the east. tree →
• Put the books wherever there is space on the shelf. tree →
• "Don't you go wherever you please?" tree →

note

One word: wherever (where + ever). In questions of surprise ("Where ever did you put it?") some people write two words, but "wherever" is accepted. Similar words: whenever (any time), whatever (any thing), whoever (any person), however (any way). Do not confuse with "where" alone, which asks about one place.

In the corpora

• There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.
• Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.
• A sailing ship could not go straight wherever it liked: it had to follow the winds.
• Every taste can be sensed wherever there are taste buds; the old tongue map came from a mistranslated German study of 1901.
• The Earth pulls everything towards its middle, so "down" means towards the centre of the Earth wherever you stand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wherever» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.