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Eladio Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Seem OR seems?

0 Could you please tell me which one of the following sentences is correct? The first is taken from a song: 02br
00Only you can do make all this world SEEM right. 02br
00Only you can do make all this world SEEMS right. 02br
00Thanks in advance, 02br
00Eladio 0-
  

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0Sorry, but the lyrics do not seem to make grammatical sense either way, Eladio-- either 'do' has to go, or there is some other error in the transcription. 02br 02br 00'Only you can make all this world seem right' 02br 00'Only what you do makes all this world seem right' 02br 00'Only what you do to make this world seems right' -- 02br 02br 00These make sense (insofar as song lyrics by nature make sense). 02br 0-

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  • 0Sorry, but the lyrics do not seem to make grammatical sense either way, Eladio-- either 'do' has to go, or there is some other error in the transcription.
  • 02br 02br 00'Only you can make all this world seem right' 02br 00'Only what you do makes all this world seem right' 02br 00'Only what you do to make this world seems right' -- 02br 02br 00These make sense (insofar as song lyrics by nature make sense).
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0Sorry, but the lyrics do not seem to make grammatical sense either way, Eladio-- either 'do' has to go, or there is some other error in the transcription. 02br
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00'Only you can make all this world seem right' 02br
00'Only what you do makes all this world seem right' 02br
00'Only what you do to make this world seems right' -- 02br
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0 The lyrics was taken from a site in the Web and it's the first sentence of the song "Only You" by Platters. When you hear the song, the word "do" is, without a doubt, pronounced: Only you can DO make this worl seems right. I thought that this "do" was an "emphatic do", so I have no doubts about it. My problem here is with the verb SEEM, because in the site I referred to, it apears as SEEM, and
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0 Hi Eladio, 02br
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00It's years since I heard this song, and as far as I recall, you can hear "do", as you describe. I think you'll find it is actually "doo" - and is sung by the backing singers, not the soloist; as such it is part of the backing or accompanying music, and not part of the lyrics.[8] 02br
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00Only you can make this world seem right 
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0 Thank you abbie1948. 02br
00Ok, anyway, according to the lyrics you reproduce here: 02br
001) Why seem and not seemS (this world is third person!) 02br
002) Why bright and not brightS (the darkness is third person) 02br
003) What's the meaning of "For it's true"? 02br
004) Sorry, but I don't know what's the meaning of "doo" 02br
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0 Hi Eladio, 02br
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00Let's give it a try: 02br
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001. "the world" is the object of the sentence, and "you" is the subject, therefore the verb is agreeing with the subject. "You make (something) seem (to be something)" 02br
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00"You make the world seem to be right" 02br
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002. Same as above - "you" is the
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0 Ok, abbie1948, now I got it, I believe! Thank you ever so much! 02br
00By the way, I searched in Google the lyrics of this song and there is no "do" there, so now I regret saying what I said in my first post about the "do". But I've learned about "for" as "because", more about subjects and objects in a sentence, more about and some sounds...; I'm going to search how in English you
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0 Eladio, 02br
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00Why regret your 1st post. You had a genuine question, and we're please to help. 050010id1
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