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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

The use of 'did' in inversion questions and question-word questions

I was wondering why 'did' was used in some sentences and not in all of them..

inversion questions:

were you in the pub when the crash happened?
did anyone else see him?
could you understand what he said?
did he say anything?

question-word questions:

what did you think when you saw the crash?
where did the car go?
what happened after the crash?
who saw the car first?

at first, I thouht it had something to do with yes/no questions or irregular verbs.. but now I'm not so sure anymore. please help!!
  

Top answer

I'm not sure that I understand your concern, but questions do indeed take ' do ' unless the verb is the copula, ' be ', or who/what/where/when/why/how is the subject.

— Mister Micawber

  • I'm not sure that I understand your concern, but questions do indeed take ' do ' unless the verb is the copula, ' be ', or who/what/where/when/why/how is the subject.
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I'm not sure that I understand your concern, but questions do indeed take 'do' unless the verb is the copula, 'be', or who/what/where/when/why/how is the subject.
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Do/does/did is not used in questions
1. with forms of to be:

Is he happy?
Were they swimming?

2. with perfect and past perfect auxiliaries:
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AnonymousI was wondering why 'did' was used in some sentences and not in all of them.
This might help. See .

CJ
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