What part of speech is do?

Do can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. do is a verb, present, 1st person singular of do (infinitive).
  • 2. do is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. do is a noun, singular of does.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

  • Singular: do 
  • Plural: does 

What does do mean?

Definitions

Verb

do - get (something) done; "I did my job"
do - create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
do - proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way"
do - carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here"

Noun

do - the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization

Examples of do

#   Sentence  
1. verb Do my room in blue.
2. verb We could do with a little more help around here.
3. verb And there is nothing we can do about it really, people who are suggesting that we go out and fight them are living in dream land.
4. verb Even the IP and ICDC have abandoned the neighbourhood, and those are trained and armed, so don't expect scared civilians to do anything except to hide inside and pray a helicopter or a tank doesn't bomb them, and also how are American soldiers going to distinguish the brave and valiant civilians from the Fedayeen?
5. verb Response: The US must do whatever it can to strengthen the legitimacy of the Pakistani government.
6. verb The best option, now, under the present difficult circumstances is for Colombo to do its own dirty work, although New Delhi can always be counted on to render good neighborly help because of the shared belief that religion, ethnicity and language cannot be the basis for secession.
7. verb While most U.S. secretaries of state -- save perhaps Dean Rusk -- have gobbled up credit for outcomes that they had little to do with, few have been as brazen as Colin Powell.
8. verb India keeps what it has while Pakistan and China (which was gifted a slice of the territory three decades ago) do likewise.
9. verb The reason for this is that India is emerging as an alternative investment destination to China, hence the favor that the generals in Islamabad do to their trusty supplier of nukes and missiles by creating a scare about war involving India when in fact the real flashpoints are the Taiwan Straits and North Korea.
10. verb They don't let just anybody do it.
11. verb I can't imagine they wanted to do this.
12. verb You CAN Do It.
13. verb And It's Not Hard To Do.... IF You Know HOW.
14. verb However since the elections Iranian influence has proved critical in convincing the Hazara Shia candidate Mohammed Mohaqeq to accept the results of the elections and later convincing Qanooni to do the same.
15. verb Nobody can claim that the interference of Afghanistan’s neighbours is over, but the elections will do much to strengthen Karzai and deal more firmly with neighbours’ interference.
16. noun We arrived Sunday at about 230 and found a do we really liked.
17. noun On Monday I called and again it was a big to-do to find anyone who knew anything about it.
Sentence  
verb
Do my room in blue.
We could do with a little more help around here.
And there is nothing we can do about it really, people who are suggesting that we go out and fight them are living in dream land.
Even the IP and ICDC have abandoned the neighbourhood, and those are trained and armed, so don't expect scared civilians to do anything except to hide inside and pray a helicopter or a tank doesn't bomb them, and also how are American soldiers going to distinguish the brave and valiant civilians from the Fedayeen?
Response: The US must do whatever it can to strengthen the legitimacy of the Pakistani government.
The best option, now, under the present difficult circumstances is for Colombo to do its own dirty work, although New Delhi can always be counted on to render good neighborly help because of the shared belief that religion, ethnicity and language cannot be the basis for secession.
While most U.S. secretaries of state -- save perhaps Dean Rusk -- have gobbled up credit for outcomes that they had little to do with, few have been as brazen as Colin Powell.
India keeps what it has while Pakistan and China (which was gifted a slice of the territory three decades ago) do likewise.
The reason for this is that India is emerging as an alternative investment destination to China, hence the favor that the generals in Islamabad do to their trusty supplier of nukes and missiles by creating a scare about war involving India when in fact the real flashpoints are the Taiwan Straits and North Korea.
They don't let just anybody do it.
I can't imagine they wanted to do this.
You CAN Do It.
And It's Not Hard To Do.... IF You Know HOW.
However since the elections Iranian influence has proved critical in convincing the Hazara Shia candidate Mohammed Mohaqeq to accept the results of the elections and later convincing Qanooni to do the same.
Nobody can claim that the interference of Afghanistan’s neighbours is over, but the elections will do much to strengthen Karzai and deal more firmly with neighbours’ interference.
noun
We arrived Sunday at about 230 and found a do we really liked.
On Monday I called and again it was a big to-do to find anyone who knew anything about it.

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