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Hello serenalucy, and welcome to English Forums. Let's go through the tenses in the positive and the negative. Present: He likes to sing. He does not like to sing. We use the verb "to do" + not to form the negative. Past: I swam 2 miles. I didn't (did not) swim 2 miles. We...

That's one of those BrE/AmE things, I think. Very generally, we form the negative with the "do" form for simple present and simple past. I run every morning, I don't run every morning. Certainly "I runn't" is wrong. I baked these cookies myself, I didn't...

Hi there. Welcome to EF.The differense between them happens to be interchangeable in some informal way or in narratives. We use Past Simple along with Present Perfect when we're talking about events happened in the past, but Present Perfect points that event may occur in the present again.He...

Hello, everyone: I don't understand the following paragraph, cited from a grammar book, could you help me please?"there is an idiomatic exception to the rule that the simple past tense indicates definite meaning: this is the construction with "always" illustrated by "I...

In BrE that is just the standard way to express a negative in the past. If it were a negative in the present we would use present perfect: I haven't been to see that film, but because what we are talking about is in the past we switch to past perfect. Maybe AmE is different.

Greetings,I have a pretty big favour to ask.I've been struggling with this topic for quite awhile now.It goes without saying that my English "leaves something to be desired".Having in mind the subtle differences that occur from using particular tenses, I have often wondered how the...

Hi,I am afraid I didn't understand exactly what you wanted. Hopefully someone else will be able to understand and help you a little more. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a few opinions:I have bought a book for a year. <-- No, this is not good, as you said.You could say:I have lived...

Hi, everybody: I have an idea about "the logical sequence of the meanings of all verb tenses" and I am not sure that I am right. Please help me. I think: In the negative forms of all verb tenses, the objects modified by the negative meanings are the original...

Yes. I think I understand what you are getting at -- although for non-native speakers some of the guidelines may appear to be circular in nature. According to Palmer (The English Verb), besides the plain vanilla 'passive' with an agent introduced by by (The man was killed by his...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...