Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
make do with
In the sentence: "Being in a hurry, we had to make do with a snack."
What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?
What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?
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" What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically? They are verbs. In this idiom, 'do' means 'suffice' ('be enough').
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Anonymous In the sentence: "Being in a hurry, we had to make do with a snack." What are the "parts of speech" of both words "make" and "do" grammatically?They are verbs. In this idiom, 'do' means 'suffice' ('be enough'). It's an unusual meaning of the verb 'do'. (It also occurs in "That will do".) There is also an implicit reference to the situation in gen
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