The question below refers to the selection "the duchess and the jeweller" by virginia woolf.
at the end of the story, why does oliver ask for forgiveness?

to create suspense.

marriage difficulties adversely affect parent-child communication

the answer is:

when will (v) the books (n) be (v) due?

nouns refer to people (other than pronouns), places and things, whereas verbs describe actions and are usually part of the predicate of a sentence. finally, pronouns can work as nouns and identify the participants in speech.

in the example sentence, "will" is a verb part or auxiliary verb, "be" is an infinitive verb and "books" is a plural noun.