Mar 22, 2023ย ยท The questions How? and Why? only have similar answers where the reason for something is the cause. This is the case for a question like "Why is the boy so big?" โ€” he has eaten โ€ฆ

Mar 18, 2011ย ยท "why" can be compared to an old Latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something. This use might be โ€ฆ

Nov 27, 2018ย ยท Why is a just a rather odd wh -word. Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable. Consequently it โ€ฆ

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Nov 25, 2010ย ยท Maybe I could say the question with why is a blunt question, whereas the question with how come indicates we admire that the person spoken to has such great knowledge about โ€ฆ

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