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 is