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:

English presents a number of issues to non-native (and sometimes native) speakers. It is grammatically unlike other languages, even those from which it has borrowed large vocabulary groups, and possesses a number of irregularities. Understanding

After talking it out with some fellow teachers and looking some terms up...we're still a little unsure about our conclusions. Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated! "I'm going to talk about Ichiro Suzuki." (Starting out

Every Girl Scout met their/her own fundraising goal. Or All the Girls Scouts met her own funraising goal. One tragic effect of Hurricane Katrina was/were massive flooding Politics are/were/is my least favorite conversation Correct Subject

Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Dear friend, when the antecedent ( others ) is personal and the pronoun is the subject of the relative clause, who is favoured, irrespective of the style and the occasion, although there is nothing wrong or odd about using that. Respectfully, Gleb

Do/does/did is not used in questions 1. with forms of to be : Is he happy? Were they swimming? 2. with perfect and past perfect auxiliaries : Have you seen him? Had it already begun? 3. sometimes with have/has/had when the verb is in the

Dear friend, both a correct, but the first option is generally more common among British English speakers. The choice of the pronoun largely depends on your intention: if you wish to speak of a class as a number of individuals, you should resort

Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

Dear friend, in your sentence, none is an indefinite negative pronoun. As it is followed by an of -phrase, it is sometimes called an of -pronoun. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff