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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?
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
Why: a relative adverb, a conjunction . . . or both? When, where, why, and how belong, however, to a different special class of words, with equally special grammar In fact, they constitute one subclass of this special class Most of the other wh -words (what, which, who) refer to nouns, so they're called pronouns -- either interrogative pronouns (because they're used to introduce question clauses)
Do you need the “why” in “Thats the reason why”? [duplicate] Good explanation of why it's optional in this case, although I'm not convinced that reason is the only reasonable antecedent of why For example, the explanation why is a common usage, and I don't think you can freely substitute that in that case either (Perhaps it's already a contraction of the explanation of why?)
grammaticality - Is it incorrect to say, Why cannot. . . . ? - English . . . Since we can say "Why can we grow taller?", "Why cannot we grow taller?" is a logical and properly written negative We don't say "Why we can grow taller?" so the construct should not be "Why we cannot grow taller?" The reason is that auxiliaries should come before the subject to make an interrogative
Why does No mean Number? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Why does English use "No " as an abbreviation for "Number"? It's a preserved scribal abbreviation like the ampersand (formed by eliding the letters of et to mean and) The OED has it in use from the 8th century, based on the ablative numerō used for an implied preposition in: X in or according to number It also gets used by the French based on numéro, which produced Wiktionary's erroneous
Why not? vs. Why not. - English Language Usage Stack Exchange My question is: is there flexibility in how one can punctuate the phrase "Why not?" The answer may seem obvious at first it is a question after all However, it's also a common idiom, and I am