I need help explaining a Grammar Mistake

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Ok. So I know this sentence is wrong, but I can't come up with a good way of explaining why. Can someone help me?

"This doesn't have much to do with the topic, but why did you delete your original account and made a new one?"

I know it should say "make" instead of "made." Why?

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

Hi Vextex,

Welcome to the forums.

Here's the key: Why did you...[bare infitive]...?

Vextes · Answer

Well, I understand that "delete" is a bare infinitive, but what property of bare infinitives determines that the next verb is "make" instead of "made?"

BarbaraPA · Answer

The "did" carries over. Why did you delete and [why did you] make?

Sooris · Answer

you always have present tense with "did"?

Why did you go? (Correct)

Why did you went? (Wrong)

Similarly

did make is correct and did made is incorrect.

BarbaraPA · Answer

Yes, once you have the verb "to do" conjugated for person and tense, (He does,  I did, etc.), the other verb is in the bare infinitive (the "to X" with out the "to") -- which is not the same as the present tense.

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