Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "What"

A: @thor42

No, only the last one makes sense.

What a beautiful…! —> Sounds like the sentence was cut-off and we are missing what is beautiful.

What the beautiful —> Sounds completely wrong.

How beautiful! —> The speaker is looking at something and putting into words their exclamation of beauty. Only those that know the context will know what is being referred to, others will need to ask.

A: Willowing means cleaning a soft tissue, like cotton or wool with a willow.
"willow" is some kind of trees.

So the echo comes (towards the beach) and willowing (hitting the sand with a willow).

A: “저기 무슨 일이죠?”

A: évasif et erratique

A: It means “what did I do during the weekend”

A: I can’t seem to find my phone.
I can’t seem to figure this out.
I can’t seem to think of any more examples.

A: Check the question to view the answer

A: I like to watch movies. How about you?

I just finished work. What about you?

A: Do you mean, "What the hell just even happened?"
You would use this when you are shocked or angry. You are asking what happened, but by adding hell, you sound more surprised or angry. (Hell is a swear word. Not a very bad one, though.)

A: ② is not correct, because the question word "what" should be replacing "it" in whatever your question is, but you have both "what" and "it" in the question, which are contradicting each other ("what" means you don't know what it is, but "it" means you do know what it is).

In general, to form a question in English, you need to take the statement form, and replace whatever bit you don't know with the question word, and then you need to find the appropriate way to move the question word to the front of the sentence. That second part is why a lot of questions use things like "what does ..." (because "do"/"does"/etc can be used to rearrange the order of words in the sentence so that the question word is first).

However, in this case, the statement you're starting with would be:

"(that thing) seems to be the problem."

So if we replace "(that thing)" with "what" (to make it a question) we get:

"What seems to be the problem?"

And in this case, we're just lucky because the question word ("what") is *already* at the front of the sentence, so we don't have to do anything else to it. It's already a correct question!

However, you could also start with the statement the other way around:

"The problem seems to be (that thing)."

So let's replace "(that thing)" with "what" again.. we get:

"The problem seems to be what?"

In this case, this isn't a correct question yet, because we need to move "what" to the front. This is where "does" is useful, because we can do this by saying:

"What does the problem seem to be?"

(which is actually also a valid way to ask basically the same question)

I hope this was helpful..

A: the first one is not correct. the second one is

A: not work= it doesn't answer what motivates the person, it just stating its not work.
not to work= what motivates this person is getting to a place where they don't have to work.

A: "what's up" is more used in a casual way like when meeting with a friend. "what's going on??" is more used when something is wrong for example when people are fighting

A: Thank you, everyone!

A: Lane is the part of the street that you drive on. If another car swerves into the part of the road where you are driving, you could yell, "That's my lane, buddy".

A: "Brew" is like "make" when talking about coffee, tea, and beer. There may be other times when "brew" is used, but those are the first things I think of.

"Boil" means to heat a liquid until it is 100C and there are lots of bubbles in it.

A: MAKE UP is an everyday word, RECONCILE is more formal and even legal.

A: There's no difference: I SHOVED/CRAMMED my books into my locker and ran to class.

A: you usually only use «grave» with something terrible or negative. «serious» can be used in more contexts and is more versatile. an example of grave in a sentence would be something like «she is in grave danger» meaning very dangerous

A: × ● What sports do you like?
✓ ● What sports do you like? (Perfect!)

× I don’t like sports.
✓ I don’t like sports. (Perfect!)

×  But,If I had to say, I like badminton.
✓  But,if I had to say, I'd say badminton. OR I'd choose badminton.

Hope it helps!

A: It's similar to "様子を見る" .

A: 全然使うとは思いますけど、まぁワンパターンで同じ言い回しばかりしたり会話で毎回聞いたりしませんね。

日本語でも聞くときと聞かないときが普通にあると思いますが、それと似たような感覚です。

そういう言い方をしないとおっしゃった方は多分、「自然な英語ではない」というよりは、「こういう初級者向けの教科書の会話は、会話として自然ではない」と言いたかったでしょう。

A: @Ys2 Maybe something like this:

Being a book lover, I have read hundreds of books.
= I have read hundreds of books because I am a book lover.

A: It adds emphasis and a sense of surprise ("I can't believe that") and/or confusion ("I have no idea what you are talking about")

It's kind of like when you add multiple ????? to a question, so like:

What does that even mean?????