Where, were and we're

Where, were, and we're sound alike, but they mean different things. We're going to discuss some tricks to use when you're trying to figure out which one you need in your sentence.

Where

Where is about place. It is used to ask about the location of someone or something, You can remember that by looking at the word like this:

W(here)

“Where” is like “here” because both show a location. For example:

Where is the park?
Where are they going?
I want to know where they went.

Were

Were is a past plural form of the verb to be. It means that a group of people or objects was somewhere or in some state at a point in the past.

We were alone out there.
They were afraid of the dark.
Sam and Tom were not finished with their assignment.

In each case, notice that were is describing a past situation.

We're

We're is telling you that we are somewhere. You can look at it like this:

We're = we + are

Whenever you use we're, you should be able to substitute for we are.

We're not going to be late this time.
I don't know when we're coming back.
Did they say when we're planning to eat dinner?
How come we're getting less?