Dear friend, you'd better specify your question, as listing every possible meaning of 'what' will be of little help. Here are some of the most common meanings: 1. Interrogative pronoun - asking for information specifying something:

"We lost almost anything" doesn't make sense, so let's change it to "We lost almost everything". Here, "almost" is listed as an adjective: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost

I'm fine with hyphens. I'm fine with compound nouns and adjectives. I'm fine with multiple adjectives modifying the same noun. I'm fine with adverbs modifying other adverbs, per definition. In attempting to answer LiJ's

What part of speech is 'second'? My terminology is: 'second' is an adjective or a pre-determiner and largest is also a determiner. The thing is, I think, determing whether it is an adverb/adjective could lead to something

With the determiner, there's a noun in front of the main verb. Is this the only difference between the two? Having the noun in front of the verb is not the important part. What is important is that the determiner is followed by a noun. ... why

From my searching, I have found: Determiner Question words: which, what, whose In questions, these words ask which thing or person is being referred to. They are placed before the noun. Which dress are you going to wear tonight? What colour is

Understand. Thanks, Mr M. Does the 'a seasonally adjusted 1%' work adverbially?-- The cardinal number is a post-determiner, so seasonally is an adverb and adjusted is an adjective modifying percent (%). Is percent a noun here? The phrase

. If there aren't the words ' seasonally adjusted ' in the sentence, I can leave out ' a ', right?-- Yes; in fact, you would have to do so . Does the 'a seasonally adjusted 1%' work adverbially?-- The cardinal number

There are a series of conflicts that run throughout this story, the most important being Trujillo’s abuse of his dictatorship over the country; an external conflict between Trujillo and society. There are a series of conflicts =main clause

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with