My question is whether "How" can be preceded by "in" in a sentence and if the following instance where it has been used is grammatically correct.
One of the major ways in which the current times are changing is in
how we communicate with each other.
Could you please explain.
Thanks.
Best Answer
How is one of those interrogative words that lets us ask a question, often with the auxiliary verb do:
How asks about the manner of something (here, communicating). By dropping the do, we can transform this question into a clause that stands for the manner of that something:
Manner is an abstract noun, and wherever we can use that noun in a sentence, we should be able to use the how clause in its place:
As the subject of a sentence:
As the object of a transitive verb:
As an objective complement:
And, as in your sentence, as the object of a preposition:
The appearance of a particular preposition doesn't depend on the how clause, but rather on what word licenses that preposition, i.e., what preposition is idiomatic with the word. Change can take in. Talk, on the other hand, takes about. So it's no surprise that we say
and