Jun 13, 2016 · He said with didn't you don't use another past verb form. This is a good heuristic, though I don't recall anything about "double past" in school myself. But it still works. The …

Jun 8, 2020 · I noticed multiple times, when writing in Microsoft Word that the program suggests a correction, from either form to the other. I can't seem to follow the logic. When is it better to …

6 "I didn't bring..." The past tense describes an action which happened in the past. " I hadn't brought... 'The past perfect tense describes an action which happened before another action …

Jan 8, 2023 · It didn't hurt that she has been strategic about marketing herself and the firm through the media. I wonder what the difference in meaning between doesn't and didn't is in …

Jul 3, 2017 · One of my friends once said “At least you didn’t be diplomatic.”. It somehow felt a little unsettling. Is “didn’t be” acceptable? Is it grammatically correct?

26 Haven't and didn't are different time-wise, as you have guessed correctly. Haven't refers to the past up until now. So if you haven't done something, you haven't done it for a specific period of …

Which of the following sentences is correct? In the last two weeks I didn't have much time. In the last two weeks I haven't had much time. If both are correct, are they different in m...

Apr 18, 2017 · Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we …

Feb 11, 2024 · Surely not "I didn't used to be"?’ on ELU.SE. The prescriptivist analysis of modern usage is that “used to” doesn't really work like an ordinary verb here, even if it originally was …

Grammar rules say that hadn't is used for unreal past conditions, but why can't we use simple past negation instead of past perfect? If I hadn't come to the meeting, it wouldn't have …