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Tada15 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Mislead or Misled?

Hi,

Please which of these 2 sentences is correct while trying to get a feedback from a third person

1. Hope I did not mislead her

or

2. Hope I did not misled her

Thanks!
  

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Hi, You need " (I) Hope I did not mislead her " for the very same reason you'd say " I did not go there " and not " I did not went here ". " Did " carries the tense (past) and needs to be followed by the bare infinitive of the main verb.

— Tanit

  • Hi, You need " (I) Hope I did not mislead her " for the very same reason you'd say " I did not go there " and not " I did not went here ".
  • " Did " carries the tense (past) and needs to be followed by the bare infinitive of the main verb.
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Hi,

You need "(I) Hope I did not mislead her" for the very same reason you'd say "I did not go there" and not "I did not went here".
"Did" carries the tense (past) and needs to be followed by the bare infinitive of the main verb.
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It should be "mislead".

"misled" is the past tense, which is never used with "did" and "did not" (even though you may be talking about past events).

Your sentence is an abbreviated form. The full sentence would be "I hope I did not mislead her". In conversation, "did not" would almost always be contracted to "didn't".
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