why
About 158.21 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb For what cause, reason, or purpose. Introducing a complete question.
Why is the sky blue?
- adverb Introducing a complete question.
Why is the sky blue?
- adverb With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
- adverb Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
Why spend money on something you already get for free?
- adverb Introducing a noun or other phrase.
Why him? Why not someone taller?
- adverb For which cause, reason, or purpose.
That's the reason why I did that.
- adverb The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
That is why the sky is blue.
- noun Reason.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Similar words
wherefore how come explaining explanation result rationale cause reason consequence therefore
Often followed by
the do did should not i he is it they
Word family
whys
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