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do Verb

— Do is an auxiliary verb. It is used in questions, negative statements, short answers, and for emphasis when there is no other auxiliary. — Questions — Where do you live? — When did you start learning English? — "Does John live here?" — Short answer — "Yes, he does." — "No, I don't." — Negative statements — They don't live here. [don't = do not] — We do not want to fight. — Jared did not tell me he had such a pretty sister. — Emphasis (do not use this too much) — You think I don't have a brother, but I do! — She does enjoy swimming in the pool. — We sometimes use do in place of a different verb, such as when we do not know what an activity is, or we do not want to say it again: What is he doing? Mary eats more than John does.

do Verb

— When you do something, you perform, complete or work on a task. Mary is doing her homework. We all did the cleaning together. I've got a lot to do. "What do you do?" - "I'm a baker." — To succeed or progress "How did John do in the tennis match?" - "He lost." "How is your leg doing?" - "Oh, it feels much better, thank you." — To write or draw something, usually in a short time He did a picture of a tree. He did an essay on Shakespeare.

do Noun

— A do refers to a hairstyle. She came to work with a new do. — Correct actions. (almost always in plural and generally with "don'ts") Willy will tell you all the dos and don'ts.

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a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

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work Verb

— If you work, you do a job, usually for money. My father works at Microsoft. I got to work at 7:30 each morning. — If you work you are doing something that needs effort. I worked on my school paper all night long. — If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do. If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this. I'm glad our plan worked. — How something works is how it does what it does. I would like to know more about how cars work. The rules here just do not work that way.

work Noun

— Your work is your job. — Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard. Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work. — Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something. — A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made. The painting was a great work of art. Shakespeare wrote many literary works.

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