Whenever, Whatever, Whoever, Wherever. Meaning and Examples.

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Whoever is watching this video now, wherever you are, please stay happy whatever you do
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Whenever you decide to learn English, I'll do my best to help you, whatever it takes
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Do you get everything I’ve said?
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If you don’t, please don’t worry Today will be talking about the meaning of
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these words: Whatever
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Whoever Wherever
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Whenever And we’ll practice these words in sentences.
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My name’s Kate and I’m here to help you improve your English.
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Let’s have a look at these words and remember how we form them.
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We add the word EVER to the question words What, Who, Where, When
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When we use these words we’re talking about something that we don’t know
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Something that doesn’t even matter
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Let’s look at the examples: WHATEVER means anything
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Nobody’s watching you.
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You can do whatever you like That means you can do anything, what you do
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is not important.
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Stay positive whatever happens Also "Whatever" can be used in a casual conversation
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When someone doesn’t know what to say or something makes no difference,
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instead of saying “I don’t care” you can say “Whatever”.
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WHOEVER – that means anyone Whoever broke the rules, was in danger
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In this example I don’t know who broke the rules
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By adding –ever to who we mean that the person is not important
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Whoever can be used in questions as a way of expressing surprise:
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Whoever told you that?
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WHEREVER means everywhere or anywhere Wherever you go, people are happy to see you
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That means we don’t know the place where you go
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And it doesn’t matter.
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Wherever you live there are always be disadvantages.
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In this example we say that the city and the contry where you live
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Is not important , you can live anywhere, and, there’re always
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be disadvantages.
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WHENEVER means any time Whenever I think about you, I feel excited.
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That means everytime I think about that person And we don’t know the exact time when I
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think about him.
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Whenever you go to the office, there’s always much work to do.
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In this case the time is not important Anytime you go there, there’s always much
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work to do.
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I hope this short lesson was clear for you.
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So if you’re talking about some person, place, time or thing
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that is not important and you don’t know it,
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use whoever, wherever, whenever or whatever.
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the channel Bye-bye
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