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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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make do with

In the sentence: "Being in a hurry, we had to make do with a snack."

What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?
  

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" What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically? They are verbs. In this idiom, 'do' means 'suffice' ('be enough').

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  • " What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?
  • They are verbs.
  • In this idiom, 'do' means 'suffice' ('be enough').
  • It's an unusual meaning of the verb 'do'.
  • ) There is also an implicit reference to the situation in general, and this reference does not appear in the idiom.
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Anonymous In the sentence: "Being in a hurry, we had to make do with a snack." What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?
They are verbs. In this idiom, 'do' means 'suffice' ('be enough'). It's an unusual meaning of the verb 'do'. (It also occurs in "That will do".) There is also an implicit reference to the situation in gen
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