Who Does That?
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Wh question in present simple tense: But what about " Who do that? Or I'll just need to say " Who? In theory, "who" can be plural as well as singular, so "Who do that? As a practical matter, however, "who" would be treated as a singular in a question, and its verb would be singular: Perhaps in BE, which treats singular nouns like "government" and "team" as plurals much more readily than AE, "Who do? Fabulist , Aug 12, Los Angeles American English.
who do that ? not about "who does that"
It's probably theoretically correct, but "Who do that? Alxmrphi , Aug 12, I can easily think of situations in which "who? Suppose one is asking for a list of a definite number of people performing an action or occupying certain positions.
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In such questions, the plural would be entirely natural. Who are the two Senators from New York? Who are the starting pitchers in tonight's game? Who sing the duet during the show? In other situations, though, I agree that using the singular after "who? GreenWhiteBlue , Aug 12, We have discussed plural interrogative who in the following threads among others: Subject questions - verb 3rd pers.
It Is Usually You Who Does/Do?
It is not clear to me, however, that this is at all what khongdaubang was asking about. CapnPrep , Aug 12, It is easy enough to think of more examples, and indeed examples in which a singular would sound odd. Your school's cheerleading squad is very good.
An exclamation hilighting the stupidity or lack of logic of a preceeding statement. Who-does-what definition: (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and.
Are all of those girls seniors? No, some are juniors. You can tell the seniors from the juniors by the color of their pom-poms. Who have the blue pom-poms?
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The juniors; the seniors have the gold ones. I put the structure into the question cause I'm confused. My teacher only teaches me 2 types of wh question in present simple tense, one is wh with to be and another with ordinary verbs. That's why I don't know that the sentence " who do that?
But when you guys say that , now I know that the structures my teacher gave me is not sufficient for all types of wh- question. Anyone know the structures for wh question with wh- as interrogative pronoun replacing subject of the question?
Sorry, guys for not clarifying this at the first post. I argued that the verb "does" needs to agree with "it" - he argued that "do" needs to agree with "you". Which is correct and why?
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Hi Nicole, welcome to EnglishForward. I think most native speakers would say "It's you who does that", using the verb in the third person.
It's you who does that. It's you guys who do that. It's a weird thing.
What's a Private Member's Bill? Who does that remind me of? By Flatirons Community Church. Is it correct to say "when the winds come"? Subject questions - verb 3rd pers. The boss is being awarded for his years of faithful service at this retirement reception. The Agenda welcomes the Toronto Transit Commission's outgoing communications director, Brad Ross, to reflect on his career.
I don't know why it's so. Maybe cleft sentences only have verbs in the third person, after the relative pronoun? But maybe the verb really agrees with the subject in formal written style.
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Maybe no one knows the truth. In Helsinki English both are correct. Both you and who can be both singular and plural. If the reference is to one person: