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Language Change Overtime (Words with changed meaning/usage (Presently…
Language Change Overtime
‘Empathic Do’
The use of the auxiliary verb “do” can be used to create a both negative and positive effect.
For example,
“I do go to the shops” would now be expressed as “I’m going to the shops”
If we use the negative, “I not go to the shops”. where as, we would say “I am not going to the shops.”
The emphatic do is now used in modern day English for questions for example, “Do you not like him?”
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