Of simple inquiries there are three kinds; about seeking for or avoiding anything, about the right and the wrong; about what is honourable and what is discreditable.
But in that kind of inquiry where the question is about what is to be sought for or avoided, those arguments are employed which refer to advantages or disadvantages, whether affecting the mind or body, or being external.
For all discussions which are introduced about civil law, or about what is just and good, belong to that sort of discussion in which we doubt what sort of thing such and such a thing which we are going to mention is.
He listened with profound interest and sympathy to his story, and made some very fierce remarks about what he would do to "that there" Loman if he got hold of him.
Now the intention cannot be about what is unknown.
About what yield do you get from the manured land?
In a fair year I get about forty bushels, and that's about what I am getting this year from my best fields.
Will you name one, just as an example, and tell me about what he has done to restore his land?
About what part of the twenty-four bushels increase would it take to pay for the fertilizers?
For counsel is about what has to be done for the sake of an end.
On the contrary, The gift of counsel is about whathas to be done for the sake of the end.
I was thinking about Henry--about what he was, and then what he did for me.
I was thinking hardest about the other end of it--about what we should do when we got down into Indiana, with maybe your men on the lookout for us everywhere.
Biddy could tell somethin' about what she's seen when she 's been to put his room to rights.
When he returned home he would tell his little daughter, who was Johanna Spyri, about what he had seen and heard.
Sally herself should speak with Erick about what he still knew of his song, and then they would search for it together, for she too would gladly help the poor boy to keep in memory the song his mother had loved.
These two books she had found in her father's study and now she explained that she had to find Erick's lost song, and what Kaetheli had told her about what was in it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "about what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
