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Tenacious Learner Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Please need definition correction

Hi teachers,

Could you tell me if there are any grammatical mistakes in this explanation please?

Normally a question word has a verb after it, except what kind of, whose, which, how many, and how much that have a common noun after them.

Thanks in advance
  

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Normally , a question word is followed by a verb . However: what kind of, whose, which, how many, and how much are question words followed by a noun .

— JohnParis

  • Normally , a question word is followed by a verb .
  • However: what kind of, whose, which, how many, and how much are question words followed by a noun .
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Normally, a question word is followed by a verb. However: what kind of, whose, which, how many, and how much are question words followed by a noun.
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TS, I am sorry to say this, but I cannot understand your approach to English grammar. Who can benefit from "rules" like this? Why would anyone be interested in memorizing question words that can or cannot be followed by a noun?
Thinking SpainNormally a question word has a verb after it, except what kind of, whose, which, how many, and how much that have a common noun a
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Hi Cool Breeze,

I am sorry to say this, but I cannot understand your approach to English grammar.

No problem. Let me explain you something, the definition I've asked to be corrected here is right after a big chart that contains a number of question words and their explanations.

Students haven't done sentenc
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Hi John,

Thank you so much for your reply and help.

Best,

TS
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Hi Cool Breeze,"Can you give me some money?"
"How much?" (no noun) Already understood that you are referring to money in this particular case. I've already explain it to the students. Other times is understood because of the context.

Let me know your opinion please

TS


Yes, the noun is understood from the context. I hope yo
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Hi Cool Breeze,

It seems like a herculean task to rewrite English grammar just to get charts of all kinds.

That's part of my madness.

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