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Well, hello and welcome

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to this English lesson
about the verb, to do.

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I've had a number of requests from viewers

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to do a lesson about this,
about the verb, to do, do, does,

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did, didn't, doesn't, all the
various forms of that verb

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and how to use it

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when you're having an
English conversation.

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So in this English
lesson, I'll do just that,

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but you'll have to bear with me.

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I'm going to do this lesson inside.

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The weather outside is not very nice,

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so there won't be any
beautiful backgrounds

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while I do this lesson,

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but please do watch the entire thing.

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I think I'll explain this
in a way that might help you

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in your next English conversation

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when you need to use the verb, to do.

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Let's start by reviewing
how to form the verb

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when you're talking in the present tense.

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With I, you, they, and we, it's just do.

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I do, you do, they do, we do.

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But when you use he and she,

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it becomes does for some reason.

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So he does, she does.

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So when you're talking about something

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that's happening right now,

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something that is true right now,

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we use I do, you do, they do, and we do.

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Or if you use he and she,
it's he does and she does.

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The most common way to use
do though in this tense,

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in the present tense is when we are saying

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that something is true or
we're answering a question,

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where we want to tell
someone something is true

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and we want to emphasize it.

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So you might hear people
say something like this,

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"I do like bananas," or "He
does work at that store."

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These are usually responses to questions,

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where someone wants to emphasize
that something is true.

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"Do you like bananas?"

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"I do like bananas."

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"Does he work at that store?"

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"He does work at that store."

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You can even hear when
I'm using the word do

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and the word does, I'm
even emphasizing it a bit

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with how I say the word.

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"I do like bananas."

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"He does work at that store."

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So this would be in
response to questions like,

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"Do you like bananas?"

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"Does he work at that store?"

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And it's a way to
emphasize that it is true.

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Let's talk a little bit though

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about the negative with
I, you, they, and we,

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it becomes do not or
the contraction don't.

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That's actually far more common.

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So I do not or I don't.

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You do not or you don't.

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They do not or they don't.

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Or we do not or we don't.

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With he and she though,
it becomes does not,

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or what's more common,
the contraction doesn't.

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He does not or he doesn't.

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She does not or she doesn't.

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So I don't, you don't,
they don't, and we don't.

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He doesn't and she doesn't.

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And you've probably guessed
it, we used the negative

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to talk about something that isn't true.

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So if someone was to ask me this question,

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"Do you like bananas?"

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I could say, "I don't like bananas."

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"Does he like bananas?"

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"He doesn't like bananas."

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You could ask a question like this.

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"Does she work at that store?"

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"No, she doesn't work at that store."

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So anytime you want to describe
something that isn't true,

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you would use don't or
you would use doesn't.

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So let's talk a little bit about the past.

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And this is way easier, by the way.

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You just need to know the word did.

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For some reason, the verb, to do,

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just has one form in the past.

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I did, you did, they did,
we did, he did, she did.

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We use this when we talk
about something in the past

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that is either no longer
true or is finished.

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It's not happening anymore.

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So you can say things like
this, "I did like bananas,"

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but this does mean that now you
probably don't like bananas.

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So it's something that
was true in the past

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that isn't true anymore.

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You could also say things like this.

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"He did buy a computer,"

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meaning that he went out to a store

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and he used his money to buy a computer.

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He did buy a computer.

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In some ways, we're using
the word did to emphasize it,

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because you could just say,
"He bought a computer."

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But when you say, "He did buy a computer,"

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we're emphasizing the meaning
of the sentence a little bit.

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So I did like bananas means
I no longer like them.

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And he did buy a computer

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means he went out and
he bought a computer.

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When using the negative in the past,

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it's actually quite easy as well.

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You simply use did not or
the contraction didn't.

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The contraction's
actually far more common.

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So you would say things like this.

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I didn't, you didn't, they didn't,

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we didn't, he didn't, she didn't.

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It's the same for all of them.

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So you might hear people talk about things

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that are no longer true.

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You might hear a sentence like this,

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"I didn't like bananas."

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That means that now, they
probably do like bananas,

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but at some point in the past,

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bananas weren't something
that they enjoyed.

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Or you might hear someone
talk about something

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that didn't occur or didn't happen.

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Sorry, I'm kind of using
didn't to talk about didn't,

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but I can't think of
another way to describe it.

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So you might hear people
say things like this,

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"He didn't buy the computer,"

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or "They didn't go to the game."

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So if you wanna talk about
the past in the negative,

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all you need to know is did not,

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or actually the contraction didn't,

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which is far more common.

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It's very common in English

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to start a question with do or does

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if you're asking about
something in the present,

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or something current, or with the word did

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when asking about the past.

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You'll hear questions like this.

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"Do you like bananas?"

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"Does he enjoy going to the movies?"

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On Mondays at my work,

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it's very common to hear
people ask this question.

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"Did you have a good weekend?"

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"Did you have an enjoyable weekend?"

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So when you ask a question

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and it's about something that's current

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or something that's happening right now,

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you can start with do or does.

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And when you're asking about the past,

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you can start with did.

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And just for fun, there are
examples I'm going to give you,

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where we use the verb, to do,
twice in the same sentence.

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You could ask a question like this.

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"Did you do your homework?"

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You start with the word did,
and you also use the word do.

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"Did you do your homework?"

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And the response would be,
"I did do my homework."

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If you ask a question like this,

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"Do you do your homework during the day?"

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And if you wanted to
emphasize your response,

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you could say, "I do do my
homework during the day."

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And you end up with the word
do twice in the same sentence.

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And that's totally correct.

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"Do you do your homework during the day?"

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"I do do my homework during the day.

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It's the best time to do it.

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It's better than at night
when I'm really tired."

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Anyways, thank you so much for
watching this indoor lesson

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about the verb, to do.

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I hope I helped you to better
understand how to use it

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when forming questions,
when making statements,

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and when using it in an
English conversation.

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