What is what in English grammar?
Answers
Explanation:
What is a wh-word. We use what to ask questions and as a pronoun and determiner.
What as a question word
We can use what to ask for information about things and actions:
What do you want?
What’s she doing? Tell her to stop at once!
What time are you leaving?
We can also use what in indirect questions:
She asked me what my address was.
I wonder what Jim Barfield is doing these days.
See also:
Questions: wh-questions
What meaning ‘please repeat’
We can use what in informal situations to ask someone to repeat something if we don’t hear it or understand it:
A:
Did you get the paper?
B:
Sorry, what? (sorry alone would be more polite)
A:
Did you get the paper?
B:
Oh, yes. It’s in the kitchen.
Is the art of putting the right words in the right place.
Explanation: