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I ask you about the usage of what and how.

What ask aim,object.
How ask some process

Are these correct?

2007-07-29 23:16:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

4 answers

I can see you're posting many questions about english grammar... If you want to understand all these better, you can try to google the words you're looking for, and check the results it gives you... Sure, you'll find what you're looking for...

So, "what" and "how"...
They're question words, like "who,why,when,which,whose" and each one of them has a different meaning... I don't know which is your native language, and I can't help you by translating them... Try to use a dictionary to look up these words and you'll understand.

I can give you some simple examples though...
"What time is it?"
"What should I wear today?"
"What are you going to do?"
"What did he say?"
"How did you fix that?"
"How can we speak?"
"How is your father?"
And also, How is used to ask about quantity
"How many sandwiches did you eat?"
---How many goes with countable nouns
"How much sugar have we got?"
---How much goes with uncountable nouns

(So, I guess now your next question will be "what are countable and uncountable nouns..?")
Ok sorry, j/k..
I hope I helped you a bit!
=)

2007-07-29 23:41:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'd agree that "how" usually refers to a process, or a way/manner of doing things. Sometimes (as the previous answer suggested) it refers to an extent: how much, how many.

What are you doing? asks the aim and What do you see? may ask about an object. "What" refers to any kind of thing.

2007-07-30 07:04:05 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0 0

realy i think that you know this

2007-07-30 06:20:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No

2007-07-30 06:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by AerosX 2 · 0 1

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