Usage of the words

[nandhusri2007]

Can someone please help to understand where and how to use the below words in writing ?

1. Whereby
2. Wherein
3. Whereas

also, please tell me are those words are single word or separate ?
Appreciate, if you could help with an examples.
Thanks

[Barb_D]

I never use the first two. It's very, very rarely that I use the third.

You can get by just fine without adding these to your vocabulary unless you work in the legal profession.

[TheParser]

Can someone please help to understand where and how to use the below words in writing ?

1. Whereby
2. Wherein
3. Whereas

also, please tell me are those words are single word or separate ?
Appreciate, if you could help with an examples.
Thanks

********** NOT A TEACHER **********


Nandhusri,


(1) As the moderator said, people do not use these words in

ordinary speech or writing.

(2) They are used if you are a lawyer writing something for the

court, or you are a member of your government writing a new law.

(3) Ordinary speakers such as I never use these words. First,

I do not know how to use them correctly; second, if I did use them,

other people would laugh at me.

*****

(4) Yes, they are now spelled as one word. (Professor George O. Curme

in his A Grammar of the English Language says that originally "whereas"

was indeed spelled as where as.)

(5) I have found two definitions from Mr. Bryan A. Garner's

A Dictionary of Modern American Usage:

(a) whereas. Sometimes it means "although." His example:

Whereas both his parents have black hair, he has blond.

(b) `whereby. Sometimes it means "by means of which."

His example (which I have changed into my own words):

The president has agreed to an agreement whereby the Congress

will continue to help the poor.

(6) I found this definition in The Columbia Guide to Standard American

Guide:

(a) wherein. Sometimes it means "where." The book's example:

This is the school wherein they placed me. Sometimes it means

"how." The book's example: Show me wherein I did wrong.

(7) You can google these words. I am sure that you will

find many results.

(8) Finally, I am reading a book about a movie director. Queen

Elizabeth the Second decided to give him a title. She wrote:


Whereas We have thought fit to nominate and appoint you to be


....

In this case, whereas does not mean "although." It is just a

beautiful old word used to introduce formal announcements. My

dictionary tells me that it means something like: Considering the

fact that ....


Thank you for your great question. I learned a lot while

I was researching the answer.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

[nandhusri2007]

TheParser,

Thank you for your explanation and suggestion.

I understand that these words are not suitable for ordinary speech and mostly it can be used while writing legal documents ( "wherein" and "whereby" were used in many places in our land agreement ") .