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  • Hi, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this beginner lesson on questions

  • with "do" and "be". This is a very common problem, a very common question that students,

  • who are learning English for the first time, ask. "When do I use 'be' and when do I use

  • 'do'? Especially when I'm asking questions."

  • So, first, what I'm going to do is actually just to go through these with you, and see

  • what your natural instinct tells you, and afterwards, I'm going to explain the rules

  • which are behind me, and we'll explain why,

  • you know, these answers are the answers that we gave.

  • For example, number one: "Where _______ you from?"

  • Do we say: "Where are you from?" or "Where do you from?"

  • - "Where are you from".

  • That's one of the most common questions, so you probably knew that one.

  • "What _______ you do?" "What are you do?", "What do you do?"

  • - "What do you do". Not: "What are you do".

  • "_______ you want to go?" "Do you want to go?", "Are you want to go?"

  • Okay? "Do you".

  • "How old _______ he?" "How old does he?", "How old is he?"

  • - "How old is he". Okay?

  • "_______ she a student?" "Does she a student?", "Is she a student?"

  • - "Is she a student". Okay?

  • "_______ you happy?" "Do you happy?" or "Are you happy?"

  • - "Are you happy".

  • "Where _______ you going?" "Where do you going?" or "Where are you going?"

  • - "Where are you going".

  • And finally: "_______ he here?" "Is he here?" or "Does he here?"

  • - "Is he here". "Is he here?"

  • Okay, so do you notice anything common about some of these questions when we use "do" and

  • when we use "be"? The ones with "be" are a little more complicated, so let's look at

  • the two examples we have with "do", and you can tell me what is the same; what is common

  • to these two questions.

  • "What do you do?", "Do you want to go?" Number one: one is an open question; one is a yes

  • or no question. But they still have something in common. Specifically, they both use a verb:

  • "do" and "want". So, here, you see: "What do you do?" Base verb. "Do" is a base verb.

  • "Do you want to go?", "want" is a base verb. So, this is the basic, basic rule when you're

  • using questions with "do" or "did" if you're speaking in the past. If you want to ask a

  • question that uses an action, a base action, always use "do" or "did", if you're speaking

  • in the past. "Where did you go?", "What do you do?", "Who did you see?",

  • "What do you want?" These types of questions

  • where you have an action, a base verb, always use "do" or "did".

  • Now, "be" can be used in many more situations than "do". It's much more versatile in that

  • way. So, let's look at the rules. Like I said, for "do", you can ask the question word, "do"

  • or "did" plus the subject, plus the base verb. And we can say "do" is only for actions. Only

  • use it with actions, only with base verbs.

  • Now, "be", you have your question, you have the verb "to be", which can be "am", "is",

  • "are", "was", "were", "will be" even. You have your subject: "I", "you", "he", "she",

  • "it", "we", "they", and then you have a number of different parts of speech and functions

  • that you can use. So, you can ask a question about age with the verb "to be": How old are

  • you? "I am", whatever your age is. You can use actions with the questions with the verb

  • "be", but they can only be continuous actions. So: "Where are you going?" Right? "What are

  • you doing?" So you can add verb+ing, present continuous.

  • You can ask questions with adjectives: "Are you happy?" You can ask questions with nouns

  • or jobs, for example: "Is he a student?", "Are you a teacher?" I am... You don't say

  • "I do", but you would say: "I am an engineer", for example.

  • And finally, you can use "be" with prepositions and adverbs. And when I say adverbs and prepositions,

  • sometimes they relate to locations, adverbs specifically. So: "Is he here?" And again,

  • "here" is an adverb, and it refers to a space, a location. So you don't say: "Do you here?"

  • or "Does he here?" but: "Is he here?", "Are you here?" And same with prepositions. So,

  • in the first question: "Where are you from?", "from" is, again, a preposition, so you would

  • use the verb "to be" in this situation.

  • So let's look at these. We have "from", which is a preposition. "How old is he?" Here, we're

  • asking about age. "Is she a student?", "student" is a noun. "Are you happy?", "happy" is an

  • adjective. "Where are you going?" This is verb+ing, "going".

  • And: "Is he here?", "here" is an adverb.

  • So, I hope this makes it a little more simple for you. Just remember: If it's an action,

  • a basic action, only use the verb "do" or "did" for actions. If it's almost anything

  • else, you're going to be using the verb "be". Okay? If you'd like to test your understanding

  • of how to make questions with the verb "do", "did", or the verb "be", you can always

  • do the quiz on www.engvid.com. And don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

  • Thanks, guys, and see you next time.

Hi, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this beginner lesson on questions

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英文法:DOとBEのどちらを使うべきか? (English Grammar: Should you use DO or BE?)

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