#meanings — Public Fediverse posts

#Language = multi-meaning #words!

⚠️ Not always easy to see which #combination being used / #inferred!

🌠 Actually most have more
uses / #meanings / #contexts !

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THERE
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#Adverb: there
1. In or at that #place
2. In that matter
3. To or toward that place; away from the #speaker

Noun: there
1. A #location other than here; that place

#Interjection: there
1. #Expression of #sympathy used to comfort someone

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WERE - SIMILAR TO:
"IS / IT WAS" + TENSE
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Verb that is similar to:
(am,are,is,was,were,been,being)

1. Have the #quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
2. Be #identical to; be someone or something
3. Occupy a certain #position or area; be somewhere
4. Have an #existence, be extant
5. #Happen, occur, take place
6. Be identical or #equivalent to
7. #Form or compose
8. Work in a #specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific #function
9. #Represent, as of a #character on stage
10. #Spend or use time
11. #Have life, be #alive
12. To #remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in #infinitive form
13. Be #priced at

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WHERE
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Adverb: where
1. In or at or to what place

Conjunction: where
1. On the other hand; while on the #contrary

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TO
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#Preposition: to
1. In the #direction of
2. #Sign of the #infinitive #case
3. #Used after an #adjective to indicate its #application
4. Indicate a #ratio or #odds
5. #Indicating a #rate or #relation
6. (time) before

#GRAMMAR IS #MULTIMEANING !