English Grammar Should you use DO or BE

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Should you say Where do you from? or Where are you from? Is the correct question What do you do? or What are you do? Are both forms correct, or is one of them completely wrong? In this lesson, I will erase your doubts about this common problem English learners have when they start forming questions. Are you ready? Do you want to improve your English grammar? Are you going to watch the lesson? • http://www.engvid.com/english-grammar... • TRANSCRIPT • Hi, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this beginner lesson on questions with do and be . This is a very common problem, a very common question that students, who are learning English for the first time, ask. When do I use 'be' and when do I use 'do'? Especially when I'm asking questions. • So, first, what I'm going to do is actually just to go through these with you, and see what your natural instinct tells you, and afterwards, I'm going to explain the rules which are behind me, and we'll explain why, you know, these answers are the answers that we gave. • For example, number one: • Where _______ you from? • Do we say: Where are you from? or Where do you from? - Where are you from . That's one of the most common questions, so you probably knew that one. • What _______ you do? • What are you do? , What do you do? - What do you do . Not: What are you do . • _______ you want to go? • Do you want to go? , Are you want to go? Okay? Do you . • How old _______ he? • How old does he? , How old is he? - How old is he . Okay? • _______ she a student? • Does she a student? , Is she a student? - Is she a student . Okay? • _______ you happy? • Do you happy? or Are you happy? - Are you happy . • Where _______ you going? • Where do you going? or Where are you going? - Where are you going . • And finally: • _______ he here? • Is he here? or Does he here? - Is he here . Is he here? • Okay, so do you notice anything common about some of these questions when we use do and when we use be ? The ones with be are a little more complicated, so let's look at the two examples we have with do , and you can tell me what is the same; what is common to these two questions. • What do you do? , Do you want to go? Number one: one is an open question; one is a yes or no question. But they still have something in common. Specifically, they both use a verb: do and want . So, here, you see: What do you do? Base verb. Do is a base verb. Do you want to go? , want is a base verb. So, this is the basic, basic rule when you're using questions with do or did if you're speaking in the past. If you want to ask a question that uses an action, a base action, always use do or did , if you're speaking in the past. Where did you go? , What do you do? , Who did you see? , What do you want? These types of questions where you have an action, a base verb, always use do or did . • Now, be can be used in many more situations than do . It's much more versatile in that way. So, let's look at the rules. Like I said, for do , you can ask the question word, do or did plus the subject, plus the base verb. And we can say do is only for actions. Only use it with actions, only with base verbs. • Now, be , you have your question, you have the verb to be , which can be am , is , are , was , were , will be even. You have your subject: I , you , he , she , it , we , they , and then you have a number of different parts of speech and functions that you can use. So, you can ask a question about age with the verb to be : How old are you? I am , whatever your age is. You can use actions with the questions with the verb be , but they can only be continuous actions. So: Where are you going? Right? What are you doing? So you can add verb+ing, present continuous. • You can ask questions with adjectives: Are you happy? You can ask questions with nouns or jobs, for example: Is he a student? , Are you a teacher? I am... You don't say I do , but you would say: I am an engineer , for example. • And finally, you can use be with prepositions and adverbs. And when I say adverbs and prepositions, sometimes they relate to locations, adverbs specifically. So: Is he here? And again, here is an adverb, and it refers to a space, a location. So you don't say: Do you here? or Does he here? but: Is he here? , Are you here? And same with prepositions. So, in the first question: Where are you from? , from is, again, a preposition, so you would use the verb to be in this situation. • So let's look at these. We have from , which is a preposition. How old is he? Here, we're asking about age. Is she a student? , student is a noun. Are you happy? , happy is an adjective. Where are you going? This is verb+ing, going . And: Is he here? , here is an adverb.

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