elopement
exponent
heroic
detachment
dogmatic
dramatic
ecstatic
elastic
inducement
acumen
allurement
amusement
Click Here to Practice Spelling List 6
Language Arts 7th.and 8th./Social Studies 7th. Grade
beard | crease | eaves | heave | leap |
knee | have | frank | smack | clamp |
build |
built | squint | live | stick | cliff |
bronze | buzz | snatch | dredge | church |
palm |
calf | half | talk | walk | chalk |
lawn | fault | spawn | drift | fund |
verse |
search | fern | serve | were | herb |
strength | sneak | purse | clutch | witch |
script | guess | start | wrath | floor |
czar | haunch | flaunt | haunt | sharp |
kneel |
In the simple present tense, do will function as an auxiliary to express the negative and to ask questions. (Does, however, is substituted for third-person, singular subjects in the present tense. The past tense did works with all persons, singular and plural.)
These verbs also work as "short answers," with the main verb omitted.
With "yes-no" questions, the form of do goes in front of the subject and the main verb comes after the subject:
Forms of do are useful in expressing similarity and differences in conjunction with so and neither.
Do is also helpful because it means you don't have to repeat the verb:
The so-called emphatic do has many uses in English.
In the absence of other modal auxiliaries, a form of do is used in question and negative constructions known as the get passive:
Based on descriptions in Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use 2nd Ed. by Jan
Frodesen and Janet Eyring. Heinle & Heinle: Boston. 1997. Examples our own.