how many
/hˌaʊ mˈɛni/
determiner
used to talk or ask about the number of things or people that are involved or concerned

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what
/ˈhwət/, /ˈwət/
pronoun
used in questions to ask for information or for someone’s opinion
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1What color does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
2What time do you finish work?'
3What is going on here?
4What else makes the devil laugh?
5What language should we speak?
when
/ˈhwɛn/, /ˈhwɪn/, /ˈwɛn/, /ˈwɪn/
adverb
used when we want to ask at what time something happens
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1What color does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
2When I do fieldwork, I always take photos.
3When the lamp is off, the wax is slightly denser than the liquid around it.
4When the fire happened, didn't the firefighters come?
5When his ammunition ran out, he threw his gun at Pugliese.
where
/ˈhwɛɹ/, /ˈwɛɹ/
adverb
to or in what place, situation, or position
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1Where is that nice young woman?
2The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
3This is a critical juncture where you have the power to stop your descent.
4They opened free heroin maintenance centers, where addicts would be treated and stabilized.
5Women over 21 can undergo a regular pap smear, where a sample of tissue is gently scraped from the lining of the cervix to test for abnormal cells.
which
/ˈhwɪtʃ/, /ˈwɪtʃ/
pronoun
used to ask or talk about one or more members of a group of things or people, when we are not sure about it or about them
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1Excessive rainfall can dilute the salt in the water, which could kill the oysters.
2What I do worry about is something else, which is a geopolitical cold war.
3Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
4So we needed refineries, which were basically giant chemical plants.
5So we're constantly making these determinations, which we're then rationalizing.
who
/ˈhu/
pronoun
used in questions to ask about the name or identity of one person or several people
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1She had a son, who was eighteen years old at that time.
2I learned a hard lesson today about the judgment and discrimination and retaliation against people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
3Who comes up with these words?
4For instance, in capitalist societies, deviant labels are often applied to those who interfere with the way capitalism functions.
5Who were the subjects that bequeathed these pulses to us?
why
/ˈhwaɪ/, /ˈwaɪ/
adverb
used for asking the purpose of or reason for something
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1Teachers wondered why some students were good at math but other students were not.
2One day one of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray before his mustache and beard do?"
3'Why don't we go to a warm room in my house for a talk then?
4Why do we listen to her?
5We explained why this should be our current calendar in our A new calendar for humanity video.

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