Clauses Whatever, Whenever... - Unit 06

When we don't want to refer to a particular pronoun, we have the Clauses Wh-, which can help us to do our sentences more fluent and without repeating a lot of times the same subject.

In the picture below we have some uses of whatever, and how we can apply it in different contexts.

example:
            Whatever the hour, he calls me.

This sentence means: It doesn't matter the hour, he will call her... "Whatever" is used because we don't know the exact time when he will call, he calls her to anytime

We have another way to say the same sentences without using Clauses Wh-, we can rephrased, the image above expain how we can use it.

example about Clauses Wh-:

                             You can have whatever you want.

It means: you can have anything that you want to.

                            Whichever person you ask, he will tell you the same.

It means: Any person you ask, you will say the same.

                          However you dress, you always look good.

It means: Any way you dress, you look good.

Reflections:

It is really important to understand the uses of Clauses Wh-, we can say the same sentence in different ways.. keeping the exact meaning. Sometimes we don't know who did something and we are used to say I don't know who was instead of saying Whoever did the action... these clauses are really useful in our vocabulary and fluency... if we want to sound much better we have to use them.