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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

What makes or what does make

What makes you think the BJP wants to split the BJD in Odisha?
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In question formation how do we know to use "what makes vs what does make"?
There is no helping verb.
  

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Jigneshbharati how do we know to use "what makes vs what does make"? We only use 'does make' for very strong emphasis. It is normally wrong.

— Mister Micawber

  • Jigneshbharati how do we know to use "what makes vs what does make"?
  • We only use 'does make' for very strong emphasis.
  • It is normally wrong.
  • Jigneshbharati There is no helping verb.
  • There never is a helping verb with simple aspect action verbs in 5W questions.
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Jigneshbharati how do we know to use "what makes vs what does make"?

We only use 'does make' for very strong emphasis. It is normally wrong.

JigneshbharatiThere is no helping verb.

There never is a helping verb with simple aspect action verbs in 5W questions.

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What makes you think that ...?

Usually we have to add a helping verb to create the subject-verb inversion in a question form.

Mother makes cookies every Friday.
When does mother make cookies?

But we do not do this is certain cases:

1. When the main verb is "be."

Mother is pretty good at baking cookies. 
Is mother good at baking c
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