Timeline for The use of DO as adverb of quality
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| Mar 1, 2016 at 3:34 | vote | accept | Klikdesainweb | ||
| Mar 1, 2016 at 3:27 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 1, 2016 at 1:15 | vote | accept | Klikdesainweb | ||
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| Mar 1, 2016 at 0:45 | answer | added | caitqlin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 22:48 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:57 | comment | added | BillJ | It's almost always a verb: sometimes a 'dummy' auxiliary verb used for emphasis as in "But I do care"; or in questions Do you care? or in negatives I do not care. In other cases it's a lexical verb, as in I will do my best . It also has a minor use as a noun, as in What a great do! | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:47 | comment | added | Klikdesainweb |
I ever learn (in one of Betty Schrampfer Azar's books) like this: I do care or I did care. So, what is do in this case? and, how to change it into negative sentence?
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| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | BillJ | @Herman Nz "Do" is not an adverb, so how can we advise you how it should be used? | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:18 | comment | added | Klikdesainweb |
I also think that didn't is an absolute statement and do not require do to emphasize it. But, is it grammatically correct? If it is not correct, how the adverb should be used?
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| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | Looks like a typo to me. I would expect to see "I didn't tell him anything". I don't think "do" belongs in that sentence. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:08 | history | asked | Klikdesainweb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |