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
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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.
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(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