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Was asked a great question today that I had no answer to...
Was asked a great question today but one of my students.
Other than being a statement (discourse marker?) what other part of speech does the word Whatever fall into?
Another question. (only been teaching a few months). I find students get very confused with grammar sometimes. Case in point: today I was doing a lesson on adjectives. Being an Advanced Class I was getting into the nitty gritty - demonstrative adjectives, proper adjectives, adjectives of order, interrogative adjectives - and my students kept disagreeing that some of these were actually pronouns, Proper Nouns etc. My answer to this was that YES THEY ARE ALSO OTHER PARTS OF GRAMMAR but when considering the topic ADJECTIVES we must focus only ON THAT TOPIC and not worry about other parts of speech for now.
Whatever relative pronoun-You can choose whatever you like. determiner-We �ll be ready at whatever time you get there. question pronoun-Whatever do you mean? conjunction-We must stay together whatever happens. adverb-There is nothing whatever to worry about.
what other part of speech does the word Whatever fall into?
Whatever is an indefinite pronoun. Is that what you want to know?
About the second issue:
There is a nomenclature issue there. If we use the word determiner, the difference between determiners and pronouns is that determiners are followed by a noun and pronouns aren �t and everything - I figure - will be more logical:
Ex
This is my laptop. (my is a determiner, because it is followed by a noun)
Anyway, there is some debate about considering this category either as adjectives or determiners, both nomenclatures are in use. The issue here is being or not being followed by a noun, as far as determiners and pronouns are considered.
Was I clear enough? I hope this is what you�re looking for...
Copied from PerfectYourEnglish, I am feeling lazy tonight. Sorry!
The words whoever,
whatever, wherever, whichever, whenever and however have similar meanings to
�it doesn�t matter who, what, which etc.,� it may be. A word of this
kind has a double function: it acts as a subject, object or adverb in its own
clause. It also acts as a conjunction joining its clause to the rest of the
sentence.
-Whatever you may
say I am not going to take him back. (= It doesn�t matter what you say, I won�t
take him back.)
-Wherever you go, I
shall follow you. (It doesn�t matter where you go, I shall follow you.)
-Whoever disobeys
the law must be punished. (It doesn�t matter who disobeys the law, he/she must
be punished.)
-Keep calm, whatever
happens.
-However much he
eats, he never gets fat.
These words are also used to suggest something not
definitely known.
-I shall come whenever
I can slip away.
-We shall send whoever
is available.
-You will have to be
content with whatever you can get.
