seahawks.com: Seahawks Attacking Playoff Bye Week: 'We Didn't Come This Far Just To Come This Far'
Seahawks Attacking Playoff Bye Week: 'We Didn't Come This Far Just To Come This Far'
I understand that [ didn't = did not]. But is it correct to write the following? Why didn't he come to work? Why did not he come to work? And can it be written as follows? Why he didn't come...
He said with didn't you don't use another past verb form. This is a good heuristic, though I don't recall anything about "double past" in school myself. But it still works. The technical way to say it is " do can take an auxillary/helping verb, but the only valid auxillary/helping verb for do is the plain or infinitive form (same as present tense)." She would hold my bicycle from the back to ...
He didn't mention anything. He didn't tell me. Here we form the past tense using the lexical verb only, which is a shade more formal: He mentioned nothing. He told me nothing about that. To form the past tense of some verbs, we add the -ed ending to the bare infinitive (mention -> mention ed). With other verbs, the vowel changes (t e ll -> t o ld).
It didn't hurt that she has been strategic about marketing herself and the firm through the media. I wonder what the difference in meaning between doesn't and didn't is in the above contexts.
Is didn't or hadn't correct below? What is the difference? Please do not dock my pay as I was in the office but didn't brought my ID card. or Please do not dock my pay as I was in the office but