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[faith2k]

"Exercising is how to lose weight." Is this sentence correct to mean "Exercising is the way how to lose weight"?

Thank you.

[Lorikeet]

[CP]

I'm guessing that your native tongue is Chinese and that you learned the phrase "way how" from people who taught you English. Whenever you hear it this way, it is wrong:

Wrong: What is the way how to say it?
Right: What is the way to say it? / How do you say it?

Wrong: I need to know the way how to get there.
Right: I need to know how to get there. / I need to know the way there.

Whenever you are tempted to say "the way how," just say "the way" or "how" and you will be fine.
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