Where are you going?
We're (we are) both going to need to wear (put on) our raincoats where (location) we're (we are) going!
where, we're & wear all sound the same but:
where is a question
we're is really we are, and
wear is an action
Where are we going?
We're [we are] going to the beach!
What you going to wear? Will you wear a hat?
"Were" is the past tense of "are" (we are, we were) and sounds like fur when pronounced.
When we were younger, we used to build sand castles.
If we were very good, our mother would buy us icecream.
Remember to use an *apostrophe* when you are
*removing a letter from a word*, for example WE ARE becomes WE'RE.
See? It's not so hard when it's explained!
U.S. Pronunciation
Thanks to Elizabeth from California :
In California's *dialect* (if there is such a thing ;-), *we're* [we are] is pronounced differently from *where* and *wear*.
The vowels in *veer*, *queer*, *here*,* and *tear* (as in weeping) match those of *we're*, and are different from *where*, *wear*, *there*, *fair*, and *tear* (as in ripping).
July 1999
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