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how
Adverb
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The word "how" is a question word, to ask about the way something happens or the way people do things.
How will we ever solve this problem?
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The word "how" is used to tell about the way something happens or the way people do things.
I know how we can solve this problem?
This is how to make this machine work.
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used to show that you feel strongly about something.
How old he looks!
how
Subordinator
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You use how to tell that something happens, is done, or is true.
She told him how it wasn't fun anymore.
many
Determiner
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A large number of (something).
There are many people in China.
People are very much animals in many ways.
How many times have I walked down this street?
It was so many years ago that we first met.
There are not many people like him.
As many as 30 per cent of the population carries this disease.
In too many cases, people don't get the care they need.
A great many questions still have no answers.
Some are good, but not very many.
Many of our teachers come from other countries.
stops
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noun
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
is
Verb
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A form of the verb be when talking about someone or something else.
He is late for class.
Is it hot in here?
it
Pronoun
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used to refer to an object without identifying or describing it; the object might have been described earlier in the text.
The house was very big. It had many rooms.
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used to describe the weather
It is very hot today.
I'm staying in because it is raining
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used to describe a situation in general
I don't like it when people tell me to do something.
It is hard to find a job.
it
Abbreviation
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It can be a short way of writing:
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# Italy or Italian
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# Information Technology, the use of computers