Do or Are

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What's different Do and Are. ex. Are you married? and Do you married? I know I can't say Do you married. But , why not?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

'Are' is a form of the verb' be', which is followed by a noun, adjective, adverb or (as an auxiliary verb) a participle: Are you the leader / happy / in the garden / sleeping?

'Do' is a form of the auxiliary verb 'do', which is followed by the main verb: Do you smoke?

'Married' is an adjective.

Yankee · Answer

I would recommend looking at it this way:
The word "married" is an adjective in your sentence, not a verb.

In the following sentences, "You are" is followed by an adjective:

You are married.
You are single.
You are intelligent.
You are sleepy.
You are tired.

In order to make all of those sentences questions, you only need to reverse the word order of "you" and "are":

Are you married?
Are you single?
Are you intelligent?
Are you sleepy?
Are you tired?

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To make a question in the simple present tense with a verb other than the verb "be", you need to use "do" and the base form of the verb. Here are four affirmative sentences in which I have used the verbs marry, sing, study and sleep:

You marry often.
You sing every day.
You study hard.
You sleep with the light on.

Here are the question forms of those sentences:

Do you marry often?

Do you sing every day?

Do you study hard?

Do you sleep with the light on?

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