Why Would Anyone Disconnect From Their Old Classmates When They Had Good Relationship With Them?
Mar 18, 2011"why" can be compared to an old latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something. There is a subtle but important difference between the use of that and which in a sentence,.
[grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Where does the use of “why” The grass is wet because it rained last night.
This seems the simplest and most elegant expression of the meaning. I am always suspicious of "reason (s)" and "why" being next to each other. Feb 12, 2018in the sentence "why is this here?", is "why" an adverb?
What part of speech is "why?" i think it modifies the verb "is", so i think it is an adverb. Nov 7, 2013the question is: Why did the english adapt the name pineapple from spanish (which originally meant pinecone in english) while most european countries eventually adapted the name.
Nov 25, 2010maybe i could say the question with why is a blunt question, whereas the question with how come indicates we admire that the person spoken to has such great knowledge about. Nov 27, 2018why is a just a rather odd wh -word. Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable.