[Grammar] Is there any difference? I do run in the morning. I really run in the morning.

[Sahil Dhankhar]

This is not my homework.

I just want to know if we can use other adverbs in the same manner that of emphatic use of "do/does/did". (can indeed be used to put emphasis on the verb in the same sense - I do run. I, indeed, run. )


I think that emphatic use has a little distinctive meaning otherwise if we could use other adverbs, why would anyone invented the emphatic use of "do/does/did".

Also, is the period used in the above sentence correct?


I think -
I do run in the morning. (The emphasis is mainly on I run and not on if I run in a manner that can be really called as running. May be I just jog and I am saying it as running.)
I really run in the morning. (The emphasis here is on the rightful use of run. It means I run in a manner that can be rightfully said as running.)

More specifically-
Jack- What do you do in the morning?
John- I run in the morning.
Jack- I don’t think so.
John – I do run in the morning.
Jack – Okay, do you really run or just jog?
John – I really run in the morning.


Kindly post your thoughts.

 

[99bottles]

I see no mistake.

 

[GoesStation]

The period is incorrect because it ends a sentence which is constructed as a question (though it's missing a verb). Your dialog between Jack and John is okay.

 

[Matthew Wai]

why would anyone invented [...]

"Have" is missing before "invented".

 

[jutfrank]

I just want to know if we can use other adverbs in the same manner that of emphatic use of "do/does/did". (can indeed be used to put emphasis on the verb in the same sense - I do run. I, indeed, run. )

I think that emphatic use has a little distinctive meaning otherwise if we could use other adverbs, why would anyone invented the emphatic use of "do/does/did".

Also, is the period used in the above sentence correct?

Kindly post your thoughts.

Please try to focus on just one question at a time.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Okay then reply to this first- "I just want to know if we can use other adverbs in the same manner that of emphatic use of "do/does/did". (can indeed be used to put emphasis on the verb in the exact same sense - I do run. I, indeed, run. "

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think "indeed" can also add emphasis.

 

[GoesStation]

Okay then reply to this first- "I just want to know if we can use other adverbs in the same manner that of emphatic use of "do/does/did". (can indeed be used to put emphasis on the verb in the exact same sense - I do run. I, indeed, run. "

No.

 

[GoesStation]

"I, indeed, run" is not natural.

 

[jutfrank]

It's not that indeed can replace the emphasis of the auxiliary. It's rather that it can add to it.

I run.
I do run.
I do indeed run.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I actually run in the morning.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Does "not natural" means non-grammatical?

 

[Matthew Wai]

If a sentence is not natural, it does not sound good to native speakers.
If a sentence is ungrammatical, it is incorrect.

 

[GoesStation]

The door was opened by my son, and "Hello" was said to me by him.

When that terrible sentence was read by me, an incident of coffee spitting was very narrowly averted.

 

[tzfujimino]

Why was the passive used by you?

(Edit) Oh dear! It's being used by me, too!

 

[jutfrank]

It is sincerely hoped by me that the point of all this is being got.

 

[jutfrank]

Does "not natural" means non-grammatical?

But seriously, Sahil, there's a very important point to be made here. I understand you are currently studying what you believe to be "formal British grammar" (I think that's what you said) but you should really understand that in English, something can be perfectly grammatical but completely incorrect at the same time. It is often in this case when we say that something is 'unnatural'.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

I understand this well and when I have a choice to write something subjectively, I try best to form natural sentences but confusion arises when I see a "find the error section" of some competitive exams. This section, most of the times, provides you some vaguely formed sentences and you have to find the error in a part of the sentence. It is really annoying but we have to deal with it.