What?

What, as we all know, is one of the big 5 questions that English Speakers use to navigate through life. What English learners don't always realize is that 'what' is probably the most complicated of these 5 questions. What can be used in at least 15 different ways:

1. interrogation; (What is this?)
2. repetition; (What did you say?)
3. act like who (What do you think I am)
4. exclamation; (What is that!!!!)
5. introduction; (What, no Breakfast?)
6. direction; (You know what?)
7. tag question; British (a clever play, what)
8. act as that or which (no money but what he inherited)
9. observation; (what I see...)
10. acts as why (what for?)
11. punishment; (Got what he deserved)
12. genre of literature (whatnot)
13. inquiry; (What's happening?)
14. needed tools and (what it takes)
15. true states. (what's what?)

Source:
Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

Homework: Write a paragraph using 3 different forms of what
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