are/do you interested?

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is it right to use "do you interested?"

if so, How and when to use it in English, and How and when to use
"are you interested?"
 

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[STRIKE]i[/STRIKE]Is it right to use "do you interested?"
No.
[STRIKE]i[/STRIKE]If so, [STRIKE]H[/STRIKE]how and when [STRIKE]to [/STRIKE] do we use it in English, and [STRIKE]H[/STRIKE]how and when [STRIKE]to[/STRIKE]do we use"are you interested?"
We can never use do with interested, only with the verb interest.

Are you interested in grammar?
Does grammar interest you?

I am not interested in sport.
Sport does not interest me.
 
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Thanks.

But why when i google that sentence even using double quotes, Which mean exact search, It give me more than 400,000,000 results?!!

Is it a very common mistake?
 

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Thanks.

But why when i google that sentence even using double quotes, Which mean exact search, It give me more than 400,000,000 results?!!

Is it a very common mistake?
A native speaker would never make that mistake from the age of about three or four.
Perhaps most of the "English" on the web these days is written by non-native users of the language. (When I do a search for this phrase, your question above comes up as number 2. Every piece of poor English written on this forum is subject to Google's searching. If I write "Interested do are you?" here (which I have), that phrase will probably eventually show up on Google. It proves nothing.


You cannot learn what is proper English by doing a web search unless you search for obviously native or official websites.
 
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