Do
and make
are some of the most used verbs in English, but they are regularly confused by English learners. I’m going to teach you the logic of when to use “make” and when to use “do”. Watch this lesson and you’ll understand how to use these verbs correctly. You’ll also learn collocations: words that often go with “make” and “do”, like do the dishes
, do your homework
, make dinner
, make a call
, and many more. Learning to use these two simple words correctly will make you sound much more fluent to native English speakers, so don’t miss out!
347 COMMENTS
Thank you James
Understanding the rational behind the use of do/make will help us to become more proficient at English. There’s no doubt about it.
Now let’s do the quiz and see if we all do well.
Well, it’s time for meal James. Oh gosh! I just have to make do with a sandwich today. I had no time to cash my check.
Excellent lesson James! Take care.
I appreciate James teaching us because I attempy to watch his videos and get smarter everyday! ;D
Make SENSE
Make DIFFERENCE
Make MONEY
Make DECISIONS
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Hi, James. Let me make a comment on the video that you have made. It often makes me wonder what to use MAKE or DO? Thanx for making this video lesson.Do the best. ) Eric
that was really beneficial and helpful.
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Thanks James! This lesson was really helpful and it just cleared my mind about this topic. Peace ✌
Thanks James, this lesson was great..
Great lesson, James! Thank you so much.
I think I will do wonders in English,God be with you
I wish you nice preparation of next lesson
Thank you James :)
it’s great :)
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Thanks James! Great Lesson
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There is only one way to become proficient at anything: Practice.
Have a nice day!
That’s just what I was thinking; I agree with you entirely Elisrpm.
If we want to become fluent in English, we all need to MAKE an extra effort; practice MAKES the difference.
Good luck with your English.
Such a helpful lesson! Thanks James, your are a great teacher!
Great lesson!
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Easy to understand to our teacher and it has been a clear and carefully explanation of the ambiguity of these two verbs, “to do” and “to make”, but when you listen to other conversations and contexts and change this pedagogic situation then maybe generate the doubt about what verb we should use. It depends on your memory to remember the exceptions like “make the bed”. I remember teacher Rebecca was explaining this concept although I haven’t seen teacher Ronnie’s explanation yet, I suppose I will have to make a view with Ronnie’s Engvid background to the inquiry of this topic. Thank a lot, teacher James, it has been a very interesting lesson as always.
https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/do-make-expressions/
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Yes, James, I’ve got 10 correct! Thank you for another informative lesson.
Can I say that students are doing their lessons, but you are making them?
Great lesson, thanks James!
Thanks James. It`s a great lesson.
Thank you very much
I loved your class about the difference between “make” and “do”! Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for your teaching me, and gave me the lesson of English this morning, so cool ?
Thanks teacher. Excellent lesson. “Make” and “do” are expressions very useful to improve the language.
Thanks again.
So great! Thanks James!
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Thanks James. I never seen a explanation as you did… It was very clear.
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Thank you! This is a excellent lesson. Congratulations
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Hi, James thanks for your great videos.
I had a request on a video about punctuation specifically about colon and semicolon
A very good and useful lesson
thanku james sir
Thanks!
Teacher: Do you have trouble making decisions?
Student: Well…yes and no.
What is the difference between “Make” and “Do” a joke? :))
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10 over 10
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do/make the new lesson please
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THANK SO MUCH TEACHER
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I did good job.
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The action and the result part made it all crystal clear…thanks james
Thank You. You “made” it easy for me to understand.
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yay i got 90 score on it:)
Thank you for the interesting lesson, James.
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Thanks a lot for share your knowledge!
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great teaching
Hi James! Great lesson. Until now I tried to memorize when to use do and when to use make, but you taught us that there are rules that can be applied. Thanks!
Pretty Good For Your Quize james I Got out 9 i Made it , it’s was So interesting Lesson i Like
Thanks a lot.Very interesting lesson. I like?
acually, it’s a bit difficult to differenciate between make and do, even I can’t explain it to if I knew how to differentiate them. sometimes I just guess it and it’s true, sometimes I don’t know why I choose make but it’s tru
great. Thanks!
Thank you so much.you are great teacher
I got 10 out of 10
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Thank You James, I realy understand diference between do and make.
Thank you James, I am clear right now about these two verbs.
Thank you !! It was an amazing lesson to Many people could got confuse
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Thanks James! Great lesson. It is little confused but I will do more practise.
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Thx James for all your lessons.
For the next one, could you teach us how to create title nouns/names like: Should I say “Technical Quality Manager” or “Quality Technical Manager” so on
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I look forward to a lot of lessons from you. Good work.
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I have learned to the differenciate the use of MAKE and DO.
Thank a lot for your help.
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it was really a usufull lesson i got 10 n the quiz , it would be pleasure if practice english with some one on engvid family , who is interested , he coul dbe in touch with on skype (lifworld4)
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I’ve tried to send you an invitation on Skype but I couldn’t. Is your ID right?
sorry i missed something lifeworld4
thanks. my result 8/10.
many many thanks to you for this concept.
thank james. My score is 10/10
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Thanks!! James, you made my day nice with it! I do know the difference!!
Thanks a lot James! This lesson was awesome. After watching the video, I finally understood it. Those words always confused me. I have to make many sentences in order to improve my skills.
Thanks James :) Finally I learned that difference between make and do
Dear James,
Firstly, I would like to say thank you so much, this video is very useful.
I would like to ask you a question, How to find whole TRANSCRIPT?
It will be nice if I can find the transcript. I will try to practice reading it out loud for making more my understanding and to improve my speaking also.
Thank in advance.
Best
Good explanation, thank you James
Thany U sir…
Hello James, I like the way you explaing the difference between do and make. It’s clear and easy to understand for me. Thank you. I did the quiz and got ten out of the ten.:)
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? 80. It’s not too bad for a beginner… ☺
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Thank you so much teacher, I got 10 out of 10
Thank you for explaining the difference between make and do.
finally I got the perfect grade, this video is going to help to my second chance at school and I will not fail again
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Hi James!
Thanks for this great lesson! “Do” and “make” are very confusing for an English student like me. Your tips will help us to use them in the correct way.
Regards from Rio de Janeiro!: )
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Learning English makes me happy.I’ll do it every day.
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I think there is a mistake on the board in the sentence: “you can see it but you can`t touch it”. It should have a comma as the following sentece: “you can see it, but you can`t touch it” because they are two sentences. Am I right?
THANKS Teacher james
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I’m terribly enjoying those quizzes..thanks for ur great job nd efforts
why did you write ( I make a bed every morning) Though the action is Repeated?
James, thanks for all your lesson. Are you American, right?
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wow only 1 mistake thank you
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you re amazing thank you and ı am sorry maybe ı am wrong you told that us you can not use to with modal but ı saw your mistake on make and do lesson and last question there is you wrote can to ı hope you understand me what ı said ….you had written that sentence … ı do everything ı can to make you happy can you tell me whats that?
It’s not a mistake, there are two parts in this sentence. The first is: I do everything I can (it means – I do everything that I can do). The second part: to make you happy (an intention).
Thank you teacher! very helpful!
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I would like to say thank you for that on DO and Make explanation. most of time it mixs up my mind, but after listening the video got cristal clear.
Many thanks!
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Thanks dude,you give me a lot of point for making very senteces.
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I got 10 correct out of 10.
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unbelievable.
It was a good lesson. Thank you for teaching!
Excellent Lesson! Thanks a lot
Good lesson! Tanks James,
Hey James! Thanks a lot for made this video to explain us when and how to use ”do” and ”make”
It helps me a lot.
thanks for the lesson
You got 10 correct out of 10.
thank you so much.
Perfect! it helped me to clear doubts out about using these verbs.
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I am Doing my hair! It was my mistake , I chose Making!! Thank you teacher.
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after this video i am not confused about the use of make and do anymore! thank u !
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Thank you brother!
it’s easy to learn..
it’s easy to learn..with you
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I like your classes.
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Simeon, you do the dishes for Mon. I’ll make the fire ok.
Thanks lecturer .
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Thanks. I enjoy very much your lessons.
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I GOT 9 CORRECT OUT OF 10, NOT BAD FR THE FIRST QUIZ
NOW I WILL MAKE COFFE TO ENJOYING THE PROGRESS
Thank you sir james for the lesson! it really helps me alot! Godbless :)
Hi…Thanks!!!
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yehoo i got nine?
i love the way of Quiz…..Thanks sir
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it was very easy to understand
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10/10 got . thx for teaching ^)
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thank you jems , i got 10 out of 10
I get 100 , thank you james
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Vey helpful. Thanks
i’m done 10/10. i did the quiz and i got a good mark. Now i’m going to do my chores and then make a popcorn for showing football matches. Thank you very much James.
Love you make me happy when you teaching becuse I understand evry thing you teach????
Thanks for best teacher ever! I have 90. I did mistake in a hair question. DO hair and not MAKE.
Try to remember that lesson!
Hello James ….. I have a question for you
Would it be correct to say that: a Student does the homework while teachers makes the homework ?
I got 80% only.I made a mistake twice.Im a lil bit hesitant about the hair thingy hehe.Well,only then I realized that doing a hair is right bcoz its part of your daily routine.Also do a quiz is right though its still confuses me because after the lesson you can have a result by “making a quiz” isnt it?Hence the “do a quiz” is right bcoz its a kind of total package if having a lesson right after will be a quiz.So for me kind of obligation which repeats after lesson classes.
very helpful thanks
Thanks i have got it
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Amazing!
Thanks Mr. James! Just simple and strong lesson.
got 100 Mr James yessssss, good lesson
Got 60 ?
I have done the quiz. yeah, I’m a good student.
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Thanks.
Thenk you♥
I got 100/100. So happy :)
I did my quiz very well. Thank you very much! I understand the lesson very good. Kudos!
thanks James…You are a very good teacher…
Hi James.What can we do without you???!
you are so helpful .thanks a lot
Hello,
i got a question,
why in the last test, we need to choose to do the squeeze instead of make?
10) After you watch a lesson on engVid, it’s time to ______ the quiz!
make
do
My students loved this lesson. Thanks.
thank for your help
Hey James, Thanks a lot for those wonderful lesions :) and I really love the way you explain things!
good luck mr.James keep going
Hi everyone! I have a question, why do you say “do a report” and not “make a report” as you write, you produce smth, youi create, it’s like a plan, sort of…
Why do we say “do a drawing/painting” and not “make a drawing/painting”???
Thank you for this lesson!!!!
I make my bed every morning, I do my morning exercises.
thank you
I like it! Thanks❤️
Please sir, is there any differences between Smell and SMELLING, another one is Feeling and Feel. thanks sir
Tip so useful
yeah broo I got 100 !
Thank you teacher, i got 9 out of 10. I keep learning from your videos to learn more and improve my speaking/ vocabulary. It helps me a lot.
Thank you teacher for being so kind and helpful,I highly appreciate your lessons :)
Сool! Thank you/
This was a great lesson. I love the way you add humor and your explanation helps me, a teacher! Thanks a million!
Good lesson. Thanks
Awesome! We, the Brazilian have a lot of trouble with it. Thanks so much!
Hi, Mr. E! You are really the best one! Thanks a lot!
Thanks, Mr. James. I’m making a comment now. If you read my comment and make a comment for me, it makes me happy.
I make a rule to watch your video 5 lessons a week, do homework to review previous lessons. But I have a lot of things to do, for example doing the dishes, the laundry, making dinner and making an excuses not to be able to do.
Good lesson. Thanks.
Its superb James.
james teacher i got 80 scores in make or do
I like it
. I can understand almost all
10/10 I am proud of my self! Thank you games you are a good teacher!
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God bless you!
thanks for this superb English class dear James no doubt the best of all…. greetings from Surco
Thanks for the quiz, I got 100
remarkable lesson teacher James aka the most famous Canadian actor lol lol
Wow! 100
:D
Thank you dear teacher
Thank you very much for the great lesson! I did the quiz and made no mistakes! Thanks a lot!
I got it!!!
Thank you one more time Mr. James.
You are a Brilliant Teacher!!!
I appreciate James for his presentation. It was really unique, beneficial and meaningful.
‘DO’ can also be used as an auxiliary verb to add emphasis to an affirmative sentence (but, it’s far more common in speech than in formal written English).
=> I do speak a little English.
Thank you again for this amazing lesson.
100% thanks