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What does do mean in What do I do? I think it means What do I usually do? , but I don't know why anyone would ask what they usually do. Does it mean something else? When should you ask a question with do , and when with are ? In other words, Are you going to Spain next week? Do you like Chinese food? What is the rule here? We don't sa. Nothing wrong with using 'do do but it just sounds like something doggies do. :-) The above sentence: I don't do anything I am ashamed of, but sometimes I do do things I find embarrassing. Might sound better if said this way: I don't do anything I am ashamed of, but sometimes I actually do things I find embarrassing. How do you do? (While it's perfectly OK to answer other similar questions How are you? / How are you doing? Fine, thanks / etc ) That said, then I talk to English speakers with Skype or in chats, I tried to ask the question, but the answer was never how do you do?. It was rather fine. you? or something. What is right and what is a myth? For example Do you know that the 8:40 train has been cancelled?. Did you know? is used, in my experience, for interesting rather than immediately useful information such as Did you know that this station was built by Brunel as part of the Great Western Railway? However, even in the rhetorical, the question how do I do that implies that even though the speaker is aware of the general possibility, doing something is abhorrent or contrary to their nature such that they would not know how to do that thing. 1) Do you know what is it? 2) Do you know what it is? I kinda do a Google research on this and basically most people say it should be the first one but unfortunately the correct one is the second one. Why it is so? If we refer to the rule of making question (WH-word + verb to be/verb to have + subject + verb + description). In What do/does a baby Range Rover and Altoids have in common? the subject of the composite verb do/does have is a baby Range Rover and Altoids , which is plural. do that is most used when there's a very specific action in question do that can also be used to contrast two different actions, e.g. Do that and not this. As a general imperative, prefer do it. With the two examples you give above, I strongly prefer the do this variation, as an instance of my second point (we're talking about a specific action). This is supposed to be humorous. The first two lines are contemplations on life and are supposed to be very profound. They were spoken by very famous philosophers from Greek history who talk about life and what it is to be alive. Frank Sinatra was a famous American swing singer around the mid 1900s. The Dobedobedobeo is a vocal sound from music of that era. It is meaningless, a sound used only.

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