Why do you say ''How dare you?'' instead of ''How do you dare?''
How do you do? vs How do you?
How do you feel? vs How feel you?
I'm puzzled.
How do you do? vs How do you?
How do you feel? vs How feel you?
I'm puzzled.
How dare you?
"How dare you" isn't so much a question as it is an exclamation... It's an archaism (archaicism?) like "so be it."
Yeah, it's just a fossilized expression, and as Skippy says, it's basically lost its interrogativity.
<<Although grammatically it's fine.>>
Yeah, it's an example of the older interrogation and negation which didn't use auxiliary verbs.
Yeah, it's an example of the older interrogation and negation which didn't use auxiliary verbs.
"How dare you say (or do) that!" is fairly commonly used here in Britland, but quite often it's pre-empted by something like: "Don't even go there!" It doesn't always work though....people still insist on going there.
Something like "How think you?" pretty much went out with Shakespeare's "How thinkest thou?"
"How do you feel?" - quite universally used here towards someone who looks a wee bit green around the gills.
"How do you do?" - now only heard on very old black and white films made at Pinewood or Shepperton studios way back in the 1940s or 1950s.
"How feel you" - probably used by natives with bones through their noses in Papua New Guinea......pidgin English.
"How do you...?" How do you what exactly? I'm puzzled.
Something like "How think you?" pretty much went out with Shakespeare's "How thinkest thou?"
"How do you feel?" - quite universally used here towards someone who looks a wee bit green around the gills.
"How do you do?" - now only heard on very old black and white films made at Pinewood or Shepperton studios way back in the 1940s or 1950s.
"How feel you" - probably used by natives with bones through their noses in Papua New Guinea......pidgin English.
"How do you...?" How do you what exactly? I'm puzzled.
"What say you?" has survived in a partial way, it is sometimes used ironically or to give an old-fashioned feel to someone's speech, like in a movie. In the Lord of the Rings for example.
DARE is a modal verb and it does not need auxilary verbs when used in negative and interrogative sentences. It is like with CAN. Nobody would ever think to say "How do you can...?" or "You don't can...".
-You don't say- is weird too, because it does not mean Don't you say :=)