verb A syntactic marker. A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
Do you go there often?
verb A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
Do you go there often?
verb A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
I do not go there often.
verb A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
But I do go sometimes.
verb A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
I play tennis; she does too.
verb Should; ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
Do I just call every number on the list each time?
verb Used to form the present progressive of verbs.