Noun

do-support (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#DOSUPPORTCategory:English nouns#DOSUPPORTCategory:English uncountable nouns#DOSUPPORTCategory:English uncountable nouns#DOSUPPORTCategory:English multiword terms#DOSUPPORTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOSUPPORTCategory:Pages with entries#DO-SUPPORTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DO-SUPPORT

1. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#DOSUPPORT) The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.

   Synonym: do-insertion

   • 2018, Janina Madlener, The Phenomenon of “do-support”: Problems of German Learners of English in a Linguistic Perspective, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:

     As we can see, ‘do-support’ is a frequently used construction in Modern English, that has no equal construction in German. We chose the topic of ‘do-support’ for our study since “[...]^[sic] do-support is one of the main stumbling blocks” […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#DOSUPPORT