Difference between Perform and Do

What is the difference between Perform and Do?

Perform as a verb is to do something while Do as a verb is (auxiliary) a syntactic marker.

Perform

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To do something To do something in front of an audience in order to entertain it.

Example sentence: Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Do

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A function, celebration, party.A hairdo.A period of confusion or argument.Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

Part of speech: abbreviation

Definition: ditto

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.To perform; to execute.To suffice.To be reasonable or acceptable.To have (as an effect).To fare; to succeed or fail.To have as one's job.To cook.To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.To treat in a certain way.To spend (time) in jail.To impersonate or depict.To kill.To have sex with. (See also do it)To cheat or swindle.To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.To finish.

We hope you now know whether to use Perform or Do in your sentence.

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