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SSY Jung Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

how/what

Dear members

"Researchers in marketing have studied how to make consumers buy more food in a supermarket."

Could we use "what" in the above sentence instead of "how" grammatically?

Thanks.

SSY
  

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SSY Jung Could we use "what" in the above sentence instead of "how" grammatically? "what" is a noun substitute. What noun could be added to "Make consumers buy more food"?

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  • SSY Jung Could we use "what" in the above sentence instead of "how" grammatically?
  • "what" is a noun substitute.
  • What noun could be added to "Make consumers buy more food"?
  • I don't think any of these make sense: Make consumers groceries buy more food.
  • Make the shop consumers buy more food.
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SSY JungCould we use "what" in the above sentence instead of "how" grammatically?
"what" is a noun substitute. What noun could be added to "Make consumers buy more food"? I don't think any of these make sense:

Make consumers groceries buy more food.
Make the shop consumers buy more food.
Make consumers buy more food the rest
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