In the next three sections, let’s examine if how belongs to any of these three parts of speech. Conjunctions, relative pronouns, and prepositions are the most common grammatical tools to connect one part of a sentence to the other. But how can also connect parts of a sentence. In the first section, we looked at how in its role of asking questions. I advised my friend on how to improve his fitness. (Comments that go with examples are in square brackets.) This has been covered later (under conjunction or subordinating conjunction subcategory) because it doesn’t belong to the direct question category. Note that how can also act as interrogative adverb in sentences where it’s not a question word. The most common interrogative adverbs are when, where, why, and how. If you recall, adverbs convey information about time, place, manner, degree, reason, etc.

Unlike when and where, which convey only one type of adverbial information (time and place, respectively), how can convey more than one type of adverbial information: manner (how fast?), time (how soon?), degree (how good?), etc. It can function as an interrogative adverb: interrogative because it is in the form of a question and adverb because it conveys few types of adverbial information. The first section looks at how in its role of asking questions. We’ll also look at few parts of speech it doesn’t belong to, but few erroneously think it does. In this post, we’ll analyze the word how grammatically, especially looking at the two parts of speech it belongs to: adverb and noun. How is known mainly as a question word, but what grammatical roles does it play in sentences. If you ask our view, these protests are mere publicity stunt. We view these protests as mere publicity stunt. For example, word view can be an adverb, a verb, a preposition, or an adjective: Depending on how it is used in a sentence, a word can belong to more than one part of speech. A word doesn’t necessarily belong to a particular part of speech.

What part of speech is the word but