Auxiliary verbs
I was studying for my next class a question pop up in my mind.
The book says " To ask certain questions, we don't need any auxiliary verb (do, does, did)
and gave as an example, these questions:
What did Mr. Harris say about social networks?;
What makes you happy?; and
Who told you about social networks?
By that it means that I can ask a question like this:
What Mr Harris said about social networks?
From what I've learned, that sound wrong.
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Marcos Miquelino The book says " To ask certain questions, we don't need any auxiliary verb (do, does, did) and gave as an example, these questions: What did Mr. Harris say about social networks? ; It appears that there is a mistake in the book.
- Marcos Miquelino The book says " To ask certain questions, we don't need any auxiliary verb (do, does, did) and gave as an example, these questions: What did Mr.
- Harris say about social networks?
- ; It appears that there is a mistake in the book.
- You cannot remove 'did' from the underlined question.
- The other two questions from the book are correct, however.
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Marcos MiquelinoThe book says " To ask certain questions, we don't need any auxiliary verb (do, does, did) and gave as an example, these questions: What did Mr. Harris say about social networks?;
It appears that there is a mistake in the book. You cannot remove 'did' from the underlined question.
The other two questions from the book are corre
0No, your examples are not correct. This is a bit confusing at first to people learning English as a second/foreign language. When the subject of the question is known, the auxiliary will be used -
In this example, we know the subject of the verb:
What did Mr. Harris say about social networks? (Mr. Harris is the subject of "did say."
In the following sentences, we don't know t
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