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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.
old
Adjective
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If someone or something is old, they are not young; they have been in existence for a long time.
An old man has gray hair.
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How old someone is, is their age.
"Ashley, how old are you?" "I'm only 16 years old."
are
Verb
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Are is the present tense, second person form of the verb be.
Hello John, how are you?
We are all happy.
Are we there yet?
John and Mary are playing.
Are you all hungry?
your
Pronoun
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Your things are things which belong to you.
Can I eat some of your ice-cream please?
cat
Noun
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A cat is a domestic animal often kept as a pet; it has whiskers and likes to chase mice.
Our pet cat has just had kittens.
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Cats refers to the family of many different wild animals that are related to the domestic cat.
s and tigers are big cats.
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A cat is a short-form for a catfish.
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A cat refers to a person who is a prostitute.
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A cat refers to a catamaran.
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The cat command, a computer program used to read one or more files and output its contents.
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Cat is a short-form for a catapult.
cat
Verb
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If you cat an anchor, you lift it onto the cathead.
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If you cat, you vomit out something.
cat
Adjective
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When something is cat, it is terrible and not good.
The weather these few days has been cat, so we decided to cancel our outing to the beach.