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Besides forming a special question asking about the recent situation, what other uses does How have?

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How is usually used as an adverb in English and is the most powerful interrogative word in special interrogative sentences. This paper shows its questioning function as follows, hoping to help students better master its usage.

1. Used alone as a question word.

1. Ask about health status, etc.

How are your parents? Are your parents healthy?

How is your father's factory? What's your father's factory like?

2. Ask about the weather.

What is the weather like today? What is the weather like today?

3. ask the law.

How does your mother go to work every day? How does your mother go to work every day?

How can I carry this box upstairs? How can I carry this box upstairs?

4. The degree of exploration.

What do you think of this book? What do you think of this book?

Second, use it with other adjectives or adverbs.

1.

How old is your friend? How old is your friend?

How old is this bridge? How old is this bridge?

2. Ask the number of countable nouns. Countable nouns are often followed by plural numbers. For example:

How many pictures are there on the wall? How many pictures are there on the wall?

How many glasses of milk do you want? How many glasses of milk do you want?

3. How many questions about the number of uncountable nouns and the price of goods.

How much money is there in the wallet? How much money is there in the wallet?

How much is the apple now? What's the current price of apples?

4. How long does it take to ask the length of the object and the length of time?

How long is the Changjiahe River? How long is the Yangtze River?

How long do you spend doing your homework every day? How long do you spend doing your homework every day?

5.How soon asks "in+a period of time", which means "how long after".

How soon will you be back? How soon will you be back?

6. Ask about adverbs or phrases that indicate frequency.

How often does Mrs Green go shopping? How often does Mrs Green go shopping?

7. How is it used to solicit opinions from the other party?

Your father is a worker, and your mother? Your father is a worker, and your mother?

How about playing games after school this afternoon? How about playing games after school in the afternoon?

8. How far is the distance between the two places? How high is the height of people (trees); Ask how much you weigh; Ask how wide the width is; How high can you ask the height of buildings and peaks.

How far is it from the earth to the moon? How far is it from the earth to the moon?

How tall is Yao Ming? How tall is Yao Ming?

How much does that big box weigh? How much does that big box weigh?

How wide is this new street? How wide is this new street?

How high is the tower in Paris? How high is the tower in Paris?

How can be used to emphasize adjectives and adverbs and form exclamatory sentences.

How interesting the little boy looks! How interesting this little boy is!

How beautiful the flowers in the park are! How beautiful those flowers in the park are!

Note that exclamatory sentences starting with how and special interrogative sentences starting with how are different in word order and sentence ending symbols. The subject and predicate of an exclamatory sentence are not inverted, and the end of the sentence is an exclamation point, while the subject and predicate of a special question are inverted and the end of the sentence is a question mark. Try to compare:

How far is the factory from here? How far is the station from here? (question)

How far is the factory from here! How far is the station from here! (sighs)