Name: W5英語真題。Wherever Whenever Whatever whoever Whyever (W5 Questions in English: Wherever Whenever Whatever Whoever Whyever)
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[singing] Whenever, wherever, you and I were meant to be together...

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Hi, James from www.engvid.com . "My Hips Don't Lie" was Shakira.

But anyway, it's an interesting point because Shakira in a song sings a song where "whenever,

wherever", and I want to teach you what whenever, wherever, whoever, however actually means.

You'll see Mr. E here is saying "Who, why, how, what, when?".

A lot of times in English, if you go to an English school, they'll talk about the W5

questions, which are the W words: who, when, where, why... we'll just stop at four, because

I don't want to give away something, because there's which and other ones, there's more

These five are used for questions, to ask questions.

Who is this person, what did you do, why did you do it, where did you go?

Now, there's a mutant - a mutant variation of the "who, why, when, where, what".

Mutant means different from the original.

So, let me just put it in red so you can see it.

Question "ever", so whoever, whyever, whenever, however.

I said "how", but we'll get to that later, and I'm going to explain how "ever" changes

the basic meaning of these W5 questions and how we use them in English and how you can

Well, Shakira started off with "whenever", but I'm just going to switch it.

But when we say "wherever", it means no particular place.

It means there's no special place or nothing I have specifically in my mind where I want

So, you can say to somebody "We can eat wherever you want."

So, the "ever" here changes it to meaning no restriction.

Or - yeah, there's no limit, there's no restriction, we're open.

We can also use it as a conjunction, so we're saying it as a conjunction, joining two ideas

So, wherever it's possible, leave some room.

Next one I want to talk about is "whoever".

Now, who is about persons or peoples, right?

But when we talk about whoever, we're talking about any person, so there's no limitation

Example here would be "Whoever was responsible for the..." action, or whoever was responsible

In this case, I don't know who the person is, so I'm saying any person who did it.

Okay, I'm not pointing particularly, I don't know.

And we go back to the idea of restriction, there's no restriction, I'm not saying this

group of people or this group of people of this person over here, I mean, I don't know

I'm not restricting it to a certain number, okay?

Now, when I said "whoever" in brackets, I said "whomever" because in English we have

"who" which is the subject, and we have "whom" which is the object and yes, when you say

"whoever", you can say "whomever", okay, to whomever this letter is addressed.

In that case, the object, the person I'm speaking to.

Usually, we say "whom", but once again, it could lead to non-restriction or no limitation.

Whoever's listening out there, I feel for you!

Whoever's listening out there, wherever you are, I know this is difficult, okay, see,

I don't know where you are and it's anybody.

Yes, you can see it's a pronoun here, but I'm saying to you that you can use it as a

pronoun as a sentence like "Whoever would do such a bad thing?".

In this case, this is the person, this is the person speaking about it, instead of he

or she or it, we're just saying whoever would do such a bad thing, alright?

Now, here's the interesting thing about whyever: most North Americans probably have said this,

but they'll tell you I've never written it on paper.

I will be one of the first ones to tell you I've never written it on paper.

In fact, the first time I wrote it down on paper was for this lesson for you, and whyever

Whoever asked me the question was the one responsible, and I will find them, wherever

So, I'm trying to play with you to build up on our knowledge.

But it's - what was the reason for doing it, like "Whyever would you do this?"

And it's actually kind of formal, because we usually just say "Why would you do it?"

But whyever, we're going back to this whole theme about restriction and opens it up, makes

it bigger, gives it a bigger field to play in, so to speak, alright?

And you might notice I put here for emphasis for the reason why, so we know it's why and

why is the reason, but it makes it stronger, giving it emphasis.

You could say "Why would you ask me that?"

But you're going to hear people say "Whyever would you ask me that?", making it much stronger

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