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- Where does the use of why as an interjection come from?
"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
- Why it is vs Why is it - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
8 1) Please tell me why is it like that [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed Please tell me: Why is it like that? The question: "Why is [etc ]" is a question form in English: Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so much attention? Why is it [or some thing] like that?
- What part of speech is why in the following example?
In 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
- Origin of Why, hello there [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Possible Duplicate: Where does the use of ldquo;why rdquo; as an interjection come from? This is a common English phrase that I'm sure everyone has heard before However, I find it puzzling
- Contextual difference between That is why vs Which is why?
Thus we say: You never know, which is why but You never know That is why And goes on to explain: There is a subtle but important difference between the use of that and which in a sentence, and it has to do primarily with relevance Grammarians often use the terms "restrictive" and "non-restrictive" when it comes to relative clauses
- How come vs Why? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Maybe 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 computers and that we are interested in hearing more about it, we would like to hear the whole story
- What is the origin of shorthand for with - gt; w ?
CyberDefinitions gives a plausible explanation: Although its origin is contested, w has been used at least since the rise of the fast-food industry in the 1950s As a form of shorthand to save time when writing down food orders, waiters replaced the words "with" and "without" with the abbreviations w and w o Since that time, the use of w as an abbreviation of "with" has become much more
- Why is I’m doing great correct? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Suggestion If you change the title of your question to: Why is "I'm doing great" correct? You might get better answers and fewer down-votes
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