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Ask for help > difference between "do" and "make"
difference between "do" and "make"
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suyunruyasi
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difference between "do" and "make"
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hi everbody,
i have a problem and want to share it with you. Today one of my students asked me the difference between do and make? i couldn �t give a clear answer Could you please tell me what the difference is ? thank you so much
Ebru Best regards |
2 Apr 2010
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aliciapc
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Same meaning (unless part of an idiom or phrasal verb!) but different use . Some words take do and some, make. For instance, make a decision but do a favor, make a bed but do homework, etc.
Write "do and make" in the search engine and you �ll get great ws by colleagues to clarify which words go with each of the verbs ! |
3 Apr 2010
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Aurore
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I often say to my younger students that "MAKE" begins with an "M" because it applys to activities that we do manually like "Make a bed" whereas "DO" applies to intellectual activities like "do homework". This works most of the time but not for "make a decision" for example but hen there are always exceptions to rules.
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3 Apr 2010
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suyunruyasi
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Aliciapc, Actually at first i tried it. I gave them the words that go with do and make but they wanted an explanation, a rule I mean :S
Aurore, i will try your method i hope it will work
thank you for your replies :))
Ebru |
3 Apr 2010
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JulietaVL
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I highly recommned you to take a look at this worksheet
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3 Apr 2010
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yanogator
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Thanks for that link, markcox. It has an excellent explanation, but, unfortunately, one error. At least in the US, we wouldn �t say "make the report" meaning "create". To us, to make a report means to deliver the report orally, probably to a group of people, but maybe only to one person. We would probably also be more likely to say "write a report" than "do a report."
Bruce |
3 Apr 2010
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