What’s wrong with this sentence?
Where did you be yesterday?
These sorts of sentences have been bothering me for some time. Can someone explain to me why I cannot say sentences like one in the example?
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Sign up to join this communityIt is possible that there is some variant of English that allows this - I don't know.
My intuition as a native speaker is that "to do" refers to an action. The verb "to be" does not describe an action, it describes a state of existence. "Being" is not something you can "do".