do-support

The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.

Noun

  1. The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: do-insertion