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Do, Does, Did
Do, Does, Did
Do, Does, Did
Alma Hernández
English
Uses: We use do as a main verb and an auxiliary verb. We can also use it as a substitute verb.
Do as a main verb
Do as a main verb has a number of meanings.
If you want to know what someone’s job or profession is, you can use the main verb do in a
question.
Example:
A: What does Jackie’s brother do?
B: He’s a lawyer.
Study a subject
We use do to talk about studying subjects.
Example: What did you do at university?
Be enough or acceptable
We use do as a main verb with will or won’t to talk about things being enough or acceptable:
A: What size shirt do you need?
B: A small one will do. (A small one is enough/acceptable)
Do as an auxiliary verb
Do is one of three auxiliary verbs in English: be, do, have. We use do to make negatives (do + not),
to make question forms, and to make the verb more emphatic.
meaning example
Emphatic forms
We use do, does (present simple) or did (past simple) to give extra force to the main verb. We use
the infinitive of the main verb without to, and stress do/does/did when speaking.
neutral emphatic
I didn’t recognize your dad, but I didn’t recognize your dad, but I did
I recognized your mom. recognize your mom.
We use auxiliary do, not auxiliary be, for questions with main verbs in the present simple:
Do you live in an apartment?
Not: Are you live in…
We use does, not do, for the third person in the present tense:
Does your sister have brown eyes too?
Not: Do your sister have…
Do as a substitute verb
We often use do instead of repeating all the words in a clause. Do substitutes for the words we
don’t repeat:
A: We went to the concert in the park this year.
B: Yes, we did too. (Yes, we went to the concert in the park too.)
We don’t use do alone if the substitute verb is in the to-infinitive form. In those cases, we omit the
verb but keep to, or we use do so, do it or do that:
It’s not often I write letters to newspapers, but that day I desperately felt the need to. Or…the
need to do so/it/that. (I desperately felt the need to write letters to newspapers.)
Not: … the need to do.
Do so
We use do so mostly to refer to actions where the subject and verb are the same as the ones we
have mentioned. Do so is generally more formal than do it and do that:
Example: I wanted them to leave, and politely asked them to do so, but they wouldn’t go, so I
called the police. (I wanted them to leave and I politely asked them to leave.)
We often use do so when we make a general reference to a series of actions or events:
Example: The birds make their nests on the north side of the island in little holes in the rocks. The
reason why they do so is because the south side of the island is exposed to extreme winds.
Do it
We use do it when we refer to an action or an event involving a verb and an object, especially
when the subject is different from the one already mentioned:
Example:
A: He accidentally deleted some emails on his computer.
B: I do it all the time. (I delete files all the time.)
Do that
Do that is more emphatic and we use it for deliberate actions:
A: Would you ever give a complete stranger your phone number?
B: No. I would never do that. (I would never give a complete stranger my phone number.)
We can use a modal or an auxiliary verb + do to substitute for a main verb and what comes after it:
Example:
A: I feel terrible.
B: You should go to the doctor.
A: I should do, I know, but I have so much work to finish.
Do, Does/Did
(Hacer, Hizo)
Hacer (Do) es un verbo irregular. Sus tres formas son hacer(do, does), hizo (did), hecho
(done). Para las terceras personas del presente simple es (does) hacer
Usos: Usamos do como un verbo principal y un verbo auxiliar. También podemos usarlo como un
verbo sustituto.
Si quieres saber el trabajo o profesión de una persona, se puede usar el verbo principal do en una
pregunta:
Ejemplo:
¿Qué hace el hermano de Jackie?
sentido ejemplo
Forma de pregunta
Para hacer la forma de pregunta de la mayoría de los verbos principales, usamos do, does
(presente simple) y did (pasado simple) seguidos por el sujeto y el verbo principal.
Ejemplo: ¿Juegas al fútbol?
Formas enfáticas
Usamos do, does (presente simple) o did (pasado simple) para dar fuerza adicional al verbo
principal. Usamos el infinitivo del verbo principal sin para, y el estrés do/ does / did cuando se
habla.
neutral enfático
Me gusta tu chaqueta
Me gusta tu chaqueta nueva!
nueva.
No utilizamos do solo si el verbo está en el sustituto -a- infinitivo. En esos casos, se omite el verbo,
pero mantenemos –a-, o usamos do so, do it o do that.
No es frecuente que escriba cartas a los periódicos, pero ese día sentí desesperadamente la
necesidad de hacerlo. O…la necesidad de hacerlo (do so)/ eso (it) / eso (that) . (Sentí
desesperadamente la necesidad de escribir cartas a los periódicos).
No: ... la necesidad de hacer.
Hazlo (do so), hazlo (do it), haz eso (do that)
A veces le sumamos “so”, “it” o “that” después de que el sustituto de Do. Do so, do it y do
that a veces se usa de manera diferente, pero a menudo son intercambiables:
Ejemplo: Dijo que se iba a mudar a Nueva Zelanda y, para sorpresa de todos, lo hizo (Did So)/ lo
hizo (do it)/ lo hizo (do that).
Podemos usar un verbo modal o auxiliar + do para sustituir un verbo principal y lo que viene
después:
A: Me siento muy mal.
B: Deberías ir al médico.
A: Lo debería hacer, lo sé, pero tengo mucho trabajo por terminar.
15 Sentences with do and does
Mark and Dylan do volunteer work at the homeless shelter twice a week.
Mark y Dylan hacen trabajo de voluntariado en el albergue de personas sin hogar dos veces por
semana.
Does Adam always turn the lights off when he leaves the office?
¿Adam siempre apaga la luz cuando se va de su oficina?
I like to do my bed.
Me gusta hacer mi cama.
Irregular Verbs
Verbos irregulares