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"What" is a pronoun. It's the object form of "who", meaning that's used after prepostions ("to whom, by whom") and in formal speech as the direct object of verbs (whom should I tell?)

"What" can be a pronoun, adjective, or adverb. In "What did you say?" it's a pronoun. In "what books have you read?" it's an adjective. In "what with one thing and another, this is hard" it's an adverb.

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A direct object answers what or whom.

ex: Give me a dollar. (give me what)

ex: I reported him to the police. (reported whom)

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