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Evo25 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

What does your dettol do for you

I have seen a advertisement written as below,
(1) What does your dettol do for you. Is there any grammatical error in this sentence?

Is it should be written as "What do your dettol does for you."
  

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Evo, there is nothing wrong in the sentence. What is the subject in the sentence? Dettol.

  • Evo, there is nothing wrong in the sentence.
  • What is the subject in the sentence?
  • Dettol.
  • It is singular.
  • So, the use of "does" is correct.
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Evo, there is nothing wrong in the sentence.

What is the subject in the sentence? Dettol. It is singular. So, the use of "does" is correct.

I think you are saying "does for you" because you assume "you" to be singular, am I right? In this case, it doesn't matter if "you" is singular or plural because it is the object, not hte subject. The use of do, does, is, are, have, has,

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