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Mango witty 973 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Did you swam last weekend?

I live abroad and the people here make these grammatical errors frequently:

- Did you went somewhere last weekend?

- Did you ran to the store?

I want to understand exactly what is going wrong. Is it that they are using the past tense of the verb even when using the past tense of the helping/auxiliary verb, which is redundant?

What exactly is the rule they are breaking?



Thanks!


Todd

  

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The Simple Past tense with the auxiliary verb 'do' must be formed with the Simple Past form of 'do' + the base form of the main verb. eg You swam. You did swim.

— Clive

  • The Simple Past tense with the auxiliary verb 'do' must be formed with the Simple Past form of 'do' + the base form of the main verb.
  • eg You swam.
  • You did swim.
  • You did not swim.
  • Did you swim ?
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The Simple Past tense with the auxiliary verb 'do' must be formed with

the Simple Past form of 'do' + the base form of the main verb.

eg

You swam.

You did swim.

You did not swim.

Did you swim?

Didn't you swim?

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mango witty 973What exactly is the rule they are breaking?

After a form of auxiliary do (do, does, did), you must use the plain form (base form) of the main verb.

CJ

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