{"id":32,"date":"2019-04-23T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:21:17","slug":"what-does-or-what-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/verbs\/what-does-or-what-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does<\/em> vs. What Do<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should we say, “What does Gloria and I have in common?” or “What do Gloria and I have in common?”<\/p>\n

If you turn the question around to place the subjects first, you would say, “Gloria and I does\/do have what in common.”<\/p>\n

Gloria<\/em> and I<\/em> are the subjects so we need a plural verb. Which verb is plural? We would say she does<\/em> but we would say they do<\/em>. So do<\/em> is the plural verb. Therefore, the answer is, “What do Gloria and I have in common?”<\/p>\n

Try this example: \u201cWhat does\/do the children look like in their costumes?\u201d<\/p>\n

If you turn the question around to place the subjects first, you would say, \u201cThe children does\/do look like what in their costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because children<\/em> is a plural subject, we again need the plural verb do<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Try this example: \u201cWhat does\/do the coach expect from the team?<\/p>\n

Turning the question around, we realize that our subject is coach<\/em>, which is singular. Therefore, we would say, \u201cWhat does the coach expect from the team?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. What does\/do she look like without makeup?
\n2. What does\/do you and your husband think of the movie?
\n3. What does\/do the team uniform look like?
\n4. What does\/do the team members think of the new coach?<\/p>\n

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Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. What does she look like without makeup?
\n2. What do you and your husband think of the movie?
\n3. What does the team uniform look like?
\n4. What do the team members think of the new coach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Should we say, “What does Gloria and I have in common?” or “What do Gloria and I have in common?” If you turn the question around to place the subjects first, you would say, “Gloria and I does\/do have what in common.” Gloria and I are the subjects so we need a plural verb. Which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-and-verb-agreement","category-verbs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}