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Is whatever a preposition

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โˆ™ 8y ago

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Not technically. For example, in the phrase "whatever the cost" the word whatever is a pronoun and 'the cost' is an appositive. Whatever is most frequently an adjective (whatever price) or pronoun.

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โˆ™ 2y ago
I did not have this question until this morning when some one told me where my umbrella was. And I donโ€™t really mind what colour it is, so I said: whatever the colour. And then came this question , โ€œ is whatever a preposition?โ€ Hello friend : )
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โˆ™ 2y ago

In the Cambridge dictionary, this construction is shown as an example under โ€œdeterminerโ€. But itโ€™s quite confusing because โ€œtheโ€ is already a determiner, so if it wants to be a determiner or something similar in kind, then it could consider being a pre-determiner, but I cannot find a source that says that. You could say that it is a conjunction, with โ€œisโ€ omitted at the end, but to me, โ€œprepositionโ€œ seems to be the best category when it is used this way.

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โˆ™ 1w ago

No, "whatever" is not a preposition. It is a pronoun or a determiner that is used to refer to anything or everything that might be the case.

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