English Grammar: Should you use DO or BE?

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+Johnny Valencia Thanks a lot, Johnny. In beginner lessons especially, I feel it's important to take this approach. Step by step is the best way.

[@myhaAa]

Was trying to explain this to my husband, however it's been a long time since i've studied English and the only thing i came up with was "using do/does only in questions regarding some actions". I've looked for other explanations, as he was still confused, and came across your video. Your way of teaching and explaining is admirable! Thanks a lot for helping us both! Will definitely subscribe to your channel!

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+Cleona Patterson (eFluentEnglish) Precisely. :) Thank you!

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Thank you so much for this lesson . Really useful , essential . Everything now is clear super thanks again!!! Even I don’t understand “base verb” but I understand “ only use Do for action “

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Thank you so much teacher I was so confused how to use them. But now, I could understand because of your clear explanation.

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+English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid) Please clarify whether to use the following sentence this way or the other? I understand the difficulties of the students. or I understand the difficulty of the students. Any commenter here can reply please if u know. Which one is correct and why? I think the second one sounds good. Please sir.

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+Nahid Ahmed See above. :)

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+Nahid Ahmed I think both are correct... one word you are using in the plural form.

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Thanks for your video. It's very helpful. I still have a question. The two sentences below they are pretty much similar, but the auxiliar verbs are different: - Who is that man? What ______ (he / want)? - Who is that man? Why ______ (he / look) at us? Why does that happen? Thank you

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Sometimes I really get confused, with all these verbs and so forth. For instance, when you are including slangs or dialects etc., where someone is saying "Where is you from?" instead of "Where are you from?", because if you re-think this sentence construction, "is" represents singular where the "are" is for "plurale". The same goes with continuing in simple past with "didn't", like "Why didn't you go(ne) to school?", that is some confusion about the english formulation and building progress of a sentence. Nonetheless, "are" is also present tense, but at the same time it is very confusing for non-native english speakers. Also, what has confused me is "You good" instead of "You are good", why would there be an "are" in the first place? I reckon there are just grammatical and both correct(?) Another important point that "like" is less formal than "for example/instance" using instead, this is something I need to adjust in the future.

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+Amrani Class Easy is sometimes good. :) This video is meant for beginner students.

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I am an arabic person and I understood the lesson clearly thank you mr. Alex

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sometime questions could be made with Have.... confusing . Thanks anyway Alex your lessons are always clear and easy to understand

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present perfect

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Hi Alex, thank you for your good intention to try to teach English using KZbin. I don't believe this type of questions is the best. You shoud not recite the wrong anwers. There are strong possiblities for the beginners that they would remember the wrong answers instead of right ones.

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Hi, my name is Christian. I’m also an English Teacher on KZbin, I think you are very clear.

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My understanding is if the sentence include the "notional verb" in we can use do/does/did, if no notional verb ,use be "am/is are/was/were.

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you are a really good teacher!sigh, I always forget "a" and "the"

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+Patricia Wong It's a common mistake. :)

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Thanks a lot Alex! Very usefull lesson for me. Really I thought I never figure out when use do or be. I always used my intuition but turn out unbelivable you show us a rule in Englisg!! Wow!

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+Xloy GR This video made my day!

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+Xloy GR I'm really happy to hear that! :) That's the whole reason I make these videos.

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Thank you very much for the explanation, I was really confused about using BE or Do in a question.

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+Weldat Fisshaye Thanks for watching, Weldat!

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I was confused between do and be and suddenly i found your video which made my day.Thanks to u teacher to solve my problem.

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It's very simply. Thank's a lot!

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+Sergey Mitrofanov "It's very simple." You're welcome. :)

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surely this lesson erase my long time doubt sir,before that i am very confusing for whichone is used do/be verbs,but now my problem sloved,thank u so much sir

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+Anna Mancero You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

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Thank you the nice explanation! Somehow I did not know the rule, however I continued to use the wrong "do" for everything. It makes sence! Thank you!

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Hello! Thank's a lot for lessons! I didn't understand why in the sentence: Are you eat the skin of a fig? // real example, we use Are not Do, cause it is an action, it's should be Do. Maybe it's a mistake in the book.

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