The document discusses the verb "to do" in English. It can be used as a regular verb or as an auxiliary verb to form negatives and interrogatives. As an auxiliary verb, "do" is used with the subject to make questions with "Do/Does + subject + verb" and negatives with "Subject + do not/doesn't + verb". Examples are provided like "Do you walk to school?" and "I don't walk to school."
2. DO é um verbo especial.
Pode ser usado como um verbo qualquer.
Pode ser usado como um verbo auxiliar, um
verbo que , associado a outros verbos, serve para
construir formas negativas e interrogativas
desses mesmos verbos.
3. Agora, vais seguir as explicações em
inglês. É fácil:
• All English verbs have two forms in the Simple
Present, except the verb Be and a set of verbs
called Modal verbs which we will study later.
• DO follows the general rule:
do does
I do
You do He does
We do It does
They do She does
4. Affirmative form:
• I do sports.
• You do gymnastics.
• We do our homework
• He does well in tests.
• She does her hair
every morning.
5. Negative form:
• I do not do sports.
• You do not do gymnastics.
• We do not do our homework
• He does not do well in tests.
• She does not do her hair
every morning.
Full form Contracted form
I do not
You do not
We do not
They do not
He does not
She does not
It does not
I don’t
You don’t
We don’t
They don’t
He doesn’t
She doesn’t
It doesn’t
6. • As an Auxiliary Verb, do is used to form
negative and interrogative sentences. Here we
have some examples in the Simple Present:
Do you speak Portuguese?
Do you like me?
We don’t speak German.
Do they have breakfast in the kitchen?
Does she have a brother?
Does her mother work in a school?
7. Interrogative sentences
• Do / Does + subject + verb
• Do you walk to school?
• Does she have a pet?
• Do they drink milk?
Negative sentences
• Subject + do not (don’t) + verb
• I don’t walk to school.
• She doesn’t have a pet.
• They don’t drink milk.
8. Further examples
• Mary drinks coffee, she
doesn’t drink tea
• I’m sorry, I don’t have any
change.
• I don’t walk to school.
• She doesn’t have a pet.
• They don’t drink milk.