Primary Auxiliary Verbs


DO-variants
‘Do’ has five grammatical variants which are:
            Do
            Does
            Did
            Doing
            Done
Consider the tense table blow
Present(plural)
present(singular)
continuous
past
perfect
Do
does
doing
did
done

Let’s use the above in five different sentences.
I)                    They do fight always
II)                  She does walk majestically
III)                They are doing it right now
IV)               We did eat rice yesterday
V)                 We have done it
Note:
Among the Do-variants, ‘doing’ and ‘done’ are anomalous because they act as the main verbs. Likewise, the rest of Do-variants are capable of acting as the main verbs. For example:
I)                    He does his assignment so quickly
II)                  We did the work ourselves
III)                I can do it well

Exercise
Make ten sentences using the words from the table below
Subject
Do-variants
Main verbs
Objects/complements

Smith

The dog

Those people

Our sisters

My brother



           does


            do

            did


kick
bark

sing

fight

play
pray
jump

 the ball

at night

around

aloud

to God
a lot

For example
1.      Those people did fight a lot.
The dog does bark at night

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