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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Make do

He will have to make do with an old car.

Is "do" a noun in the sentence above?

  

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He will have to make do with an old car . No, it's not a noun. "Make + do" are inseparable and (according to my grammar) best treated as a complex verb.

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He will have to make do with an old car.


No, it's not a noun.

"Make + do" are inseparable and (according to my grammar) best treated as a complex verb.

Other similar idioms include "have done with", "make do with" and "put paid to".