A few days ago
tinaO

Can someone identify the use of each word in this sentence:”Where did you go?”?

I’m in an argument with myself…I can be a dork when it comes to grammar and I want to know the explanation why sentences are constructed as such. In the abovementioned sentence, there are two words that LOOK like verbs, but I’m wondering if they both act as verbs. I know for sure DID is a verb, but what about GO? Is it a verb too? If they’re both verbs what tense is it, the first is in past tense form, the other is in its simple form. I hope there is someone out there who is as anal about grammar as I am.

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A few days ago
bweaing

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where –adjective

did –auxiliary verb

you –noun, subject

go –verb

Auxiliary verbs take precedence in determining number and tense

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A few days ago
hy003002
A question must have ‘a helping verb’.

Helping verbs are:

1. v. to be

2. v. to have

3. Modals: will, must, can, etc

AND

4. v. to do

NOW

The first three are already there in a sentence:

He is reading a novel. What is he reading?

He has been reading this novel for a week now. How long has he been reading this novel?

He will start reading this novel next week. When will he start reading this novel?

BUT

He goes to school at 7.

The above sentence hasn’t got a helping verb (one of the first 3). To make a question we use v. to do (a dummy verb):

When does he go to school?

AND SO ON

He went to school at 7. When did he go to school?

They go to school at 7. When do they go to school?

I hope you have got it.

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5 years ago
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My hubby is a 33rd level mason and there is a hand shake and words exchanged, but they don’t tell about that. He gets mad if I ask, but I have been snooping and I don’t think I should tell you this. I guess you have to become one to find out. It is pretty serious though I heard him talking to another member and the information he said was so heavy and deep, it made me dizzy for 2months and the man ran screaming down the street.
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A few days ago
♫Rojas♫
‘where’ is an adjective

‘did’ acts as an auxiliary verb

‘you’ is of course noun

‘go’ is the verb

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A few days ago
Anonymous
go is a verb i think im not sure
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