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do-support en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.
    • As we can see, ‘do-support’ is a frequently used construction in Modern English, that has no equal construction in German. We chose the topic of ‘do-support’ for our study since “[...]^([sic]) do-support is one of the main stumbling blocks”[…] 2018, Janina Madlener, The Phenomenon of “do-support”: Problems of German Learners of English in a Linguistic Perspective, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:

Synonyms

do-insertion

Translations (2)

sv do-omskrivning (use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries) · pl do-support (use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries)