Sebagai main verbs pada transitive sentence, do/does/did memiliki makna melakukan sesuatu. Sebagai auxiliary verb, do/does/did dapat digunakan untuk bentuk kalimat negative atau question. Perhatikan daftar berikut:
Subject Present Tense Past Tense
I do did
you, we,
they do did
she, he,
it does did
our
friends (plural) do did
her
mother (singular) does did
etc…
Do/does/did berfungsi sebagai auxiliary verbs ketika main
verbs dalam bentuk negative atau interrogative (kalimat tanya). Kata-kata ini memberikan
penegasan pada main verb dalam
kalimat.
Perhatikan kalimat
berikut:
- He does not smoke or drink.
- Did you come yesterday?
- Robert and Jim do not join us.
- She did not make her task last week.
(Kata smoke, come, join dan make merupakan main verb dalam kalimat. Maka kata does not, did, do not dan did not merupakan auxiliary verb yang memberikan penegasan pada main verb di atas. Do/does/did+not menandakan kalimat tersebut negatif. Maka frasa di atas dapat diterjemahkan does not smoke: tidak merokok, do not join: tidak bergabung, did not make: tidak membuat. Biasa do/does/did+not disingkat dengan don’t/doesn’t/didn’t. Sedangkan do/does/did di awal kalimat tanya dapat diterjemahkan dengan apakah. Did you come yesterday? diterjemahkan dengan: Apakah kamu datang kemaren?)
Do/does/did digunakan
sebagai transitive
verbs yang bermakna
melakukan.
Perhatikan kalimat
berikut:
- I did my homework last night.
- I have done it.
- Mr. Wahid does this proposal professionally.
(Kata did, done, dan does dalam
kalimat di atas merupakan transitive verb.
Dalam kalimat ini kata do/does/did
dapat diartikan dengan melakukan atau membuat).
Exercise:
Choose correct form of the have or has in parentheses in the following sentences. Do as examples.
- George (
don’t/doesn’t/didn’t) sleep at all on the trip. - Although
he had a lot of work to (do/
does/did), he went to the concert.
- She (don’t/doesn’t/didn’t) go to a library unless she has the time.
- He (don’t/doesn’t/didn’t) understand the math problem.
- She (don’t/doesn’t/didn’t) watch TV last night because she had to write a paper.
- (Do/Does/Did) Ghazali call you last night?
- In free time, Khairul (do/does/did) everything to spend his time.
- The teacher (don’t/doesn’t/didn’t) permit us to turn our assignment in late.
- My sister brings his work to (do/does/did) at home.
- Most student collage (do/does/did) their assignment in library.
- What (do/does/did) you do last week?
- (Do/Does/Did) you find the room where interview will hold?
