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Do - Basic
Do - Advanced

Lesson 2

Basic

1 'do' é usado em frases negativas para colocar o verbo principal no presente:

I don't want this                      - Não quero isto.
I don't think it is important       - Não acho que é importante.
I don't go out on Mondays       - Não saio nas segundas.
I don't take sugar in my coffee - Não uso açúcar no café.
I don't smoke or drink              - Não fumo nem bebo.

Obs.: usamos 'do' porque não podemos dizer 'I want not, I think not etc', pois só podemos colocar a partícula 'not' depois de verbos auxiliares.

2 'do' é usado também em frases interrogativas:

Do you smoke? - Você fuma?

Do you want this?
Do you think it is important?
Do you go out on Mondays?
Do you take sugar in your coffee?
Do you smoke or drink?

3 com 'he', 'she' e 'it' acrescentamos 'es' ao 'do':

She doesn't want this.

Does he think it is important?

4 'Do' não aparece em frases afirmativas, mas note o que acontece quando usamos 'he', 'she' e 'it':

- Adicionamos 's' à maioria dos verbos:

He likeS meat
She likeS meat
It likeS meat

wear    wears
speak speaks
live       lives

- Mas 'go' e 'do' são diferentes:

go        goes
do        does

- Se o verbo termina em -s, -sh, -ch, adicionamos 'es':

kiss      kisses
wash     washes
watch    watches

- Se um verbo teminar numa consoante mais 'y', trocamos o 'y' por 'ies':

fly         flies
study    stydies

- Mas se o verbo terminar numa vogal mais 'y', o 'y' não muda:

play      plays

- 'have' é irregular:

have      has

Exercises

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Advanced

1 IN QUESTIONS/NEGATIVES

a) used with another verb to form questions and negatives:
   Do you like bananas?
   I don't feel like going out tonight.
   Ian didn't answer.
   Where do you live?
   Doesn't Rosi look wonderful?
   Don't just stand there - do something!
   Why don't you come for the weekend? (=please come)
   Don't let's invite her. (=let's not invite her)

b) especially spoken - used to form QUESTION TAGS:
   You know Tony, don't you?
   She didn't pay cash, did she?

2 FOR EMPHASIS used to give emphasis to the main verb:
Do take care!
"Why didn't you tell me?" "I did tell you."
He owns, or did own, a yacht.

3 IN POLITE REQUESTS used as a polite way of offering someone something:
Do have a cup of tea.

4 INSTEAD OF VERB used to avoid repeating another verb:
Omar speaks English better than he did. (=better than he used to speak it)
"You broke my pencil." "No, I didn't."
"You left the door open." "So I did." (=you are right)
"Will Kay come?" "She may do."
"You ought to phone your mother." "I have done."
So he plays the piano, doesn't he?
so do I Emma loves chocolate, and so do I.
neither do I "I don't want any more." "Neither do I."

5 what is somebody/something doing? used to ask why someone or something is in a particular place, when you think they should not be there:
What's this cake doing on the floor?
What was that man doing in our garden anyway?

6 WITH ADVERB used to reverse the order of the subject and the verb when an adverb or advervbial phrase starts a sentence:
Not only did I see him, I spoke to him, too.


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