“Make” e “Do” são verbos fáceis de serem confundidos em inglês. Ambos significam “fazer”, porém existem algumas diferenças no seu significado!?
There is a guide to the basic use of these two words in English: You do an activity, but you make a product. Look at theses examples:
– Have you done the copying?
– Have you made the copies?
As well as this basic use, both words are used in fixed expressions, which you need to learn.
Word Partnerships ?
You can make lots of useful business phrases with the verbs make and do. But do you know which ones to use?
Which of the following words are used with make and which with do? A few of them can be used with both but the meaning sometimes changes:
do business make a decision
make research make money
make progress do a project
do a survey make a comparison
make a breakthrough make a mistake
make an impact make a deal
make a discovery make a comment
make an effort make a report
make a phone call make an offer
do a good job make an excuse
make arrangements make an improvement
make recommendations make an appointment
make/ do a presentation
Do or make? (from English Grammar Today) ?
When we use do and make with noun phrases, do focuses on the process of acting or performing something, make emphasises more the product or outcome of an action:
When I was [action]doing the calculations, I [outcome] made two mistakes.
I [action]did some work for her last summer; I [outcome] made a pond in her garden.
Examples:
I do the shopping on Fridays usually.
Could you do a job for me next week?
Who does the cooking in your house?
They made me an interesting offer of a job in Warsaw.
Not many building firms will make a profit this year.
I have to make a phone call.
Nouns which combine with do:
activity | damage | favour | job | task |
business | drawing | gardening | laundry | test |
cleaning | duty | harm | one’s best | washing (up) |
cooking | exam(ination) | homework | painting | work |
course | exercise | ironing | shopping |
Nouns which combine with make:
apology | coffee | excuse | love | offer | remark |
assumption | comment | friends | lunch | phone call | sound |
bed | complaint | guess | mess | plan | soup |
breakfast | dinner | law | mistake | profit | speech |
cake | effort | list | money | progress | statement |
change | error | loss | noise | promise | tea |
Fonte: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/do-or-make
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