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KhoshtipMan Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Using auxiliary "do" for emphasis

Hi,

You do can learn it.

Here "do" is used for emphasis. That seems incorrect, but any reason, please?

  

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*You do can learn it. It's ungrammatical because it's not possible to have two consecutive auxiliary verbs in this example.

— BillJ

  • *You do can learn it.
  • It's ungrammatical because it's not possible to have two consecutive auxiliary verbs in this example.
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*You do can learn it.

It's ungrammatical because it's not possible to have two consecutive auxiliary verbs in this example.

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