{"id":72228,"date":"2019-09-17T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72228"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:22:15","slug":"dare-as-an-ordinary-verb-and-an-auxiliary-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/dare-as-an-ordinary-verb-and-an-auxiliary-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare As An Ordinary Verb And An Auxiliary Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dare as an ordinary verb<\/h3>\n

As an ordinary verb, dare<\/b> is followed by the infinitive with to<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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  • She doesn\u2019t dare to go <\/b>out at night.<\/li>\n
  • I dare you to <\/b>hit me!<\/li>\n
  • She didn\u2019t dare to tell <\/b>him what had happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Note that the ordinary verb dare<\/b> is more common in negative sentences.<\/p>\n

    The expressions You dare!<\/b> and Don\u2019t you dare!<\/b> are sometimes used to discourage people from doing unwanted things.<\/p>\n

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    • \u2018Mummy can I draw a picture on the wall?\u2019 \u2018You dare! <\/b>\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Dare as an auxiliary verb<\/h3>\n

      As an auxiliary verb, dare<\/b> is followed by an infinitive without to. Questions and negatives are made without do<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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      • How dare you say<\/b> that I am a liar?<\/li>\n
      • Dare she tell<\/b> him?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        The expression I dare say <\/b>is used in British English to mean I think probably<\/i> or I suppose<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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        • He is not here yet, but I dare say he will come later. (= I think he will probably come later.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Dare + object + infinitive<\/h3>\n

          The expression I dare you + infinitive<\/b> is used to challenge other people to do frightening things.<\/p>\n

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          • I dare you to jump <\/b>across the stream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Dare as an ordinary verb As an ordinary verb, dare is followed by the infinitive with to. She doesn\u2019t dare to go out at night. I dare you to hit me! She didn\u2019t dare...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1418,1420,1417,1419],"class_list":["post-72228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-auxiliary-verb-dare","tag-correct-use-of-dare","tag-dare","tag-dare-auxiliary-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72229,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228\/revisions\/72229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}