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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
What tense to use after Do/Does/Did and Has/Have/Had
hi there,
my question is, what tense do you use after the word do/does/did or has/have/had, do you use present, present continous or past tense?
Take for example
The sales department has generate or generates or generated $1 million revenue.
The sales department had generate or generated $1 million revenue
The new marketing scheme does attract or attracts or attracted more customers.
The new marketing scheme did attract or attracted more customers.
Seek your kind advice on this. thanks.
my question is, what tense do you use after the word do/does/did or has/have/had, do you use present, present continous or past tense?
Take for example
The sales department has generate or generates or generated $1 million revenue.
The sales department had generate or generated $1 million revenue
The new marketing scheme does attract or attracts or attracted more customers.
The new marketing scheme did attract or attracted more customers.
Seek your kind advice on this. thanks.
Top answer
-- In forming complex verb forms (auxiliary + main verb) you do not use any tense at all: you use an infinitive or a participle. It is the auxiliary ( has, had, does, did, is, was ) that has tense. The sales department has generated $1 million revenue.
- -- In forming complex verb forms (auxiliary + main verb) you do not use any tense at all: you use an infinitive or a participle.
- It is the auxiliary ( has, had, does, did, is, was ) that has tense.
- The sales department has generated $1 million revenue.
- -- past participle The sales department had generated $1 million revenue -- past participle The new marketing scheme does attract more customers.
- -- bare infinitive or base form The new marketing scheme did attract more customers.
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what tense do you use after the word do/does/did or has/have/had, do you use present, present continous or past tense?-- In forming complex verb forms (auxiliary + main verb) you do not use any tense at all: you use an infinitive or a participle. It is the auxiliary (has, had, does, did, is, was) that has tense.
The sales department has generated $1 million reven
The sales department has generated $1 million reven
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