{"id":5271,"date":"2012-12-10T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2012-12-09T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:50:11","slug":"were-going-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/12\/were-going-where\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re going where?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing some marketing research for a client, I came across the following sentence:<\/p>\n

With over 37\u00a0 year’s experience, where sure to make your Christmas party a huge success!<\/p>\n

I admit I was stunned to see this error and thus a new Monday Meaning<\/a> post was inspired.\"Smartphone<\/a><\/p>\n

where: <\/strong>[noun]<\/span><\/span> location or place; [adverb] in what place\/position\/respect; ]pronoun] which place or point?
\nI wonder where Simon will be on Christmas Day this year?<\/em><\/p>\n

we’re <\/span><\/strong>[contraction]<\/span><\/span>:<\/span> we are – we’re is simply an abbreviation of ‘we are’ where the apostrophe replaces the space and letter a<\/a>.
\nWe’re going to my Father’s house for Christmas lunch this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m also adding a\u00a0 word that sounds different but has similar spelling and does sometimes get used in place of where and we’re.<\/p>\n

were<\/span><\/strong> [verb]<\/span><\/span>:<\/span> ‘to be’ in the\u00a0past (ie the past tense) for a plural\u00a0(we, they) or second person singular (you)\u00a0noun
\nWe were at my Uncle’s last Christmas Day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doing some marketing research for a client, I came across the following sentence: With over 37\u00a0 year’s experience, where sure to make your Christmas party a huge success! I admit I was stunned to see this error and thus a new Monday Meaning post was inspired. where: [noun] location or place; [adverb] in what place\/position\/respect; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[119,1595,1594],"class_list":["post-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-meaning","tag-were","tag-where"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}