What is the difference between wherein and where?
wherein | where | Derived terms |
How, or in what way.
* Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 1 Kings 18:9
Where, or in which location.
* Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. Numbers 35:34
During which.
* There is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. Ecclesiastes 8:9
How, or in what way.
* In order to show them wherein they were wrong, Samuel was instructed to bear witness against them... 1 Samuel 8:9
English pronominal adverbs
English words not following the I before E except after C rule
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
* (William Shakespeare)
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= At or in which place or situation.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
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Wherever.
(legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
At what place; to what place; what place.
In what situation.
The place in which something happens.
Where is a derived term of wherein.
As adverbs the difference between wherein and where
is that wherein is how, or in what way while where is used interrogatively, in either a direct or indirect question At what place; to what place; what place.As conjunctions the difference between wherein and where
is that wherein is where, or in which location while where is while on the contrary; although; whereas.As a pronoun where is
the place in which.As a noun where is
the place in which something happens.wherein
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Adverb
(-)See also
*Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)where
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Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- And flight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Adverb
(-)- Where are you?
- Where are you going?
- Where did you come from?
- Where would we be without our parents?
Noun
(-)- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where , the why and the how.
- Finding the nymph asleep in secret where . — Spenser.
