Is what a noun or a verb?

Answer 1

A noun is the name of an object. For all common nouns you can place the (in)definite article '(a/an)/the' in front of it. e.g. A Dog, an House, the road.

The different between 'a' and 'an' is the prefix letter of the noun. If the noun begins with 'a,e,i,o,u, or 'h' , use 'an', for all the consonants use 'a'.

For proper nouns, the name of a person or city, you do not use the articles.. We do not say 'The New York'. but just 'New York'., similarly, 'The Joe Biden', but just 'Joe Biden'.

A Verb is a doing word. It describes an action; e.g. walking, running,.

Verbs have tenses to describe if the action is in the

PRESENT, PAST, or FUTURE. For all verbs the base verb has 'to' in front of it. e.g., to run, to walk. etc.,

The present tense ' I run.

The past tense, ' He ran;.

The future tense , ' She will run'.

The tenses can be divided into participles, both past and present. Participles can be perfect or imperfect. This is were the English language becomes complicated, so I shall leave 'verbs' at this point.

Answer 2

The word "what" is a pronoun, whether used as an interrogative (What are you doing) or object (Listen to what I say).

It can also be an adjective (what school do you attend), and more dubiously as an adverb or conjunction. It is, however, never a verb.