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HSS Posted 20 years ago
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Get a Where
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Now, say, you are looking for somebody. One of you come back from his search, and says, "I've finally gotten a where." Does that mean he has found a piece of the whereabouts of the man you have been looking for, and it could be true and could not be?
How would you be more specific using "where"? You say, "I've finally gotten his where"? This sounds like the piece of information is true. "I've finally gotten a where of him"? Nawww, it doesn't sound right.
Hiro
Sendai, Japan
Now, say, you are looking for somebody. One of you come back from his search, and says, "I've finally gotten a where." Does that mean he has found a piece of the whereabouts of the man you have been looking for, and it could be true and could not be?
How would you be more specific using "where"? You say, "I've finally gotten his where"? This sounds like the piece of information is true. "I've finally gotten a where of him"? Nawww, it doesn't sound right.
Hiro
Sendai, Japan
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I've finally gotten his where abouts. seems the only correct one to me, the others sound strange. book=Third&va=place ; especially : the place in which something mentioned is or occurs <discussed the where and how of the accident> ----------
- I've finally gotten his where abouts.
- seems the only correct one to me, the others sound strange.
- book=Third&va=place ; especially : the place in which something mentioned is or occurs <discussed the where and how of the accident> ----------
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I've finally gotten his whereabouts.
seems the only correct one to me, the others sound strange.
Where is used as a noun only in special situations:
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where
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
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seems the only correct one to me, the others sound strange.
Where is used as a noun only in special situations:
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where
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
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Then, would you say, "I've gotten a where," when you are talking about some event, not about somebody's whereabouts, Marius? Having lived in the U.S. for quite some time, I've used whereabouts without thinking too much of it, but not interchangeably with where as a noun, particularly when talking about somebody's location.
Hiro
Sendai, Japan
Hiro
Sendai, Japan
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