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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.
wag
Verb
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A wag is when an animal shakes a tail. For example, a dog shakes its tail from side to side.
That dog wagged its tail
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A person who wags does not go to school when they are supposed to be.
He's wagging school.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
world
Noun
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The Earth.
Our world needs to be cared for.
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The .
I love you more than anybody else in the world.
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The setting of a group of people.
They were in their own world as they talked about trains nobody else knew about.
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A planet.
I wonder if there is life on other worlds.