How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school?
N nur mazlina New member Joined Jan 1, 2012 Member Type Student or Learner Native Language Malay Home Country Malaysia Current Location Malaysia Jan 1, 2012 #1 How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school?
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Jan 1, 2012 #2 nur mazlina said: How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school? Click to expand... Certainly not the second. We would normally say "How does your friend get to school?" or "How does your friend travel to school?" "To go to school" is understood to mean "to attend school" not "to travel to the building".
nur mazlina said: How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school? Click to expand... Certainly not the second. We would normally say "How does your friend get to school?" or "How does your friend travel to school?" "To go to school" is understood to mean "to attend school" not "to travel to the building".
T TheParser VIP Member Joined Dec 8, 2009 Member Type Other Native Language English Home Country United States Current Location United States Jan 1, 2012 #3 nur mazlina said: How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school? Click to expand... NOT A TEACHER (1) Many, many, many years ago in England, people would ask something like: How goes your friend to school? (2) But the English people then decided to use "do" in questions and the negative. (3) So today we have to say: How does your friend go to school? P.S. But you could say: I want to know how your friend goes to school. (That is not a direct question. So you do not have to use "do.")
nur mazlina said: How does your friend go to school? or How your friend goes to school? Click to expand... NOT A TEACHER (1) Many, many, many years ago in England, people would ask something like: How goes your friend to school? (2) But the English people then decided to use "do" in questions and the negative. (3) So today we have to say: How does your friend go to school? P.S. But you could say: I want to know how your friend goes to school. (That is not a direct question. So you do not have to use "do.")
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Jan 1, 2012 #4 TheParser said: NOT A TEACHER (1) Many, many, many years ago in England, people would ask something like: How goes your friend to school? (2) But the English people then decided to use "do" in questions and the negative. (3) So today we have to say: How does your friend go to school? P.S. But you could say: I want to know how your friend goes to school. (That is not a direct question. So you do not have to use "do.") Click to expand... I agree on the change from "goes" to "does go" in the interrogative and the negative, but I still maintain that "to go" is not the appropriate verb for this context.
TheParser said: NOT A TEACHER (1) Many, many, many years ago in England, people would ask something like: How goes your friend to school? (2) But the English people then decided to use "do" in questions and the negative. (3) So today we have to say: How does your friend go to school? P.S. But you could say: I want to know how your friend goes to school. (That is not a direct question. So you do not have to use "do.") Click to expand... I agree on the change from "goes" to "does go" in the interrogative and the negative, but I still maintain that "to go" is not the appropriate verb for this context.