But you never know. Why is the sky blue? And goes on to explain: If you meet an old friend of yours, whom you never expected to meet in town, you can express your surprise by saying: This use might be explained from a formula such as how does it come that. . · in the sentence why is this here?, is why an adverb? This why in the. —used to express mild surprise, hesitation, approval, disapproval, or impatience in my experience, the extra why in why, thank you is used mainly to avoid appearing too abrupt in ones thankfulness. There is a subtle but important difference between the use of that and which in a sentence, and it has to do primarily with relevance. According to merriam-webster: Why is it that children require so much attention? What part of speech is why? i think it modifies the verb is, so i think it is an adverb. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Why is used here as an interjection. Why is [etc. ] is a question form in english: · why can be compared to an old latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. You never know, which is why. Today why is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something. Grammarians often use the terms restrictive and non-restrictive when it comes to relative clauses. Why is it [or some thing] like that? Why is it like that? · 8 1) please tell me why is it like that.

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