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You missed your payment.I do not miss my payments.I didn't miss my payments.I haven't missed my payments.Are these all acceptable as an answer?

Sam1947 · Accepted Answer

"I do not miss my payments." This is a general statement that means it is your practice not to miss payments.

"I didn't miss my payments." Should be, "I didn't miss my payment."

"I haven't missed my payments." If talking about this specific payment that the speaker says you missed, it should be "payment" instead of "payments."

If you are answering what you might perceive to be a broader question than the literally stated one about one specific payment, you might answer with the plural payments, meaning you had not missed any payments over time.

or, you could say, "I haven't missed any payments." That would include the specific one being asked about as well as any other payments.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

Grammatically, these are all good sentences. One thing I'd like to point out though, which is, learners must learn to recognize that contexts are important in deciding whether a sentence is properly constructed with resepct to time. (or tense). Examples:

AnonymousI do not miss my payments. - This means as a habit, I always pay bills before their due day.
I didn't miss my payments [last month]. - This suggests that you are disagreeing with someone who accused of not paying your bills.
I haven't missed my/[one]/ [any] payments [since the beginning] . If this is referring to a car loan, you may used this statement as you are defending your credibility. Present perfect dictates that a process or event has started sometime in the past which is still in process. in this case " making payment on time."

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