I have a question on using verb.        Did you call me yesterday?   Did you called me yesterday?       Which one is correct? Did says the incident happened in past so I don't know if I can use called. Please advice.
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In regard to this , my question is similar but that answer is not clear. I want to know why we use base form of verb, e.g. 'go' to form the past tense instead of past form such as 'went'?     Question: Did you go to a bank?  (Why we use 'go' here, rather than 'went'?)   Answer: I went to a bank.   Am I confusing verb forms with tenses? Please note that I'm not a native speaker so some clarification or reference on this would be helpful.
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This is something which came up in my .   As far as I know "had + verb" is done (started &amp; finished) in the past. What's about "has + verb"? Can anyone please explain me the difference?
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Are these two sentences grammatically correct?   Mona told me that London was the biggest city in England. He wanted to know where Manchester was.   I found these two sentences by chance in an exercise book published by Egypt's  Ministry of Education. Both sentences talk about a fact, and Is it unreasonable to change the verb tense in reported speech to past simple when what the sentences talks about is still true? (As my teacher and the books say.) Or is it right when we talk about facts to change the tense or is the tense change optional and  both are correct?
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I need advice on the best use of the verb show.  When do you use showed? I find myself substituting has shown, even when I meant to use the preterit in my sentence.  I prefer "she has shown" over "she has showed"; are there differences in phrasal verbs, such as "show up" or "show out"?  Do you ever use "shew" and its family?
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Would it be okay if I called you when I got back home?     Would it be okay if I called you when I get back home?       Are both the above sentences grammatically correct?  I'm still kinda confused with the tenses agreement thing.  And how backshifting works.  What i don't get is,do i have to convert the entire sentence to the past,or do i have convert certain parts of the sentence to the past. Or whether i should keep a sentence where i have past tense strictly to the past.  Like:        I was walking down the street the other day, and it hit me how the world worked.     I was walking down the street the other day, and it hit me how the world works.      Do I keep the sentence to the past? Or do I mix tenses?
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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Which one of the following is correct use? If both are correct, what difference does this change make in a conversation?   Do you know when is this being used? Do you know when this is being used?
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The two sentences here both indicate that, at some point in the past, I performed some work:   I did work I worked   What is the difference between these two sentences? Does constructing one with did and the other with a simple past change the meaning?
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I am really confused now, so I've found out that:  Facts :  HAVE GOT is only used in the present and past form.  the plain "have" is used in all tenses.  HAVE GOT cannot be combined with the modal verbs such as :must, may, might, can, etc. and can't be combined with to+infinitive.  Only the plain "have" can be combined with the modal verbs &amp; it can be combined with to+infinitive. ex. I want to have a pair of shoes (or) I want to have got a pair of shoes.  HAVE GOT and the plain "have" are used in BrE. (Do BrE natives use both ? Could you explain the differences between them?)  The pattern  A. HAVE GOT : I have got.. &amp; I haven't got..&amp; have I got (in the negative, haven't I got ___ ?)  B. HAVE : I do have.. / I have.. &amp; I don't have.. &amp; do I have? (negative, don't I have?)  C. past : I had got /(I did have) I had &amp; I hadn't got /I didn't have &amp; had I got (hadn't I got?), did I have? ( didn't I have?)  Are these facts correct? I await your explanations, thanks.
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I wrote this to my friends a few days ago: (1) It used to take 5 seconds for me to reach Youtube, now it only took me 2 seconds to do it.  I used "now" to refer to the moment when I installed a faster connection hardware. I come up with this question, because I think the use of "now" in sentence 1 is informal and it is like a colloquial conversation. I am sorry my friends. Back in those days I was taught (by my English teachers, non-native speaker) that now must use in present tense, so the use of now sometimes confuses me.
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I was in a Teacher's selection for a school in my country, and one of the coordinators said that she heard a mistake from another teacher that was unacceptable. I tried to figure out why was that, but I thought it was silly and forgot about it. Then I was asking about the weekend in my classroom and one of my Ss said the same sentence. I corrected him according to the coordinator, as she is way more experienced than me, but I couldn't actually explain why to him. The sentence was:     I went to the church.   I can't see the mistake in this sentence if the church had been previously mentioned in the context of the conversation. I understand, as a non-native speaker, that if you are talking to a person that doesn't have any idea of where you were and doesn't have any previous information about the specific place, the article 'the' should not be used. Also, I am assuming church as a count noun. So instead, we would say:     I went to a church.   Is it correct to use the indefinite article since I don't have any idea of which church he is talking about?   I made a research about it and found that places that people use in common (like school, church, hospital, work) but are not necessarily the same, we would omit the article, so we would use the sentence that the coordinator accept:      I went to church.   Like this sounds strange to me, but since I am not a native speaker, I think that it is OK.   I really don't think that it was an unacceptable mistake, since the use of the article will depend on the context. So, if I am talking to my student, asking what he did last weekend and we were not talking about anything before, which one should he use?
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At the dentist's:     I was on time for my dentist's appointment, but the dentist was still busy with another patient, so I sat in the waiting room and read some of the old magazines lying there. All the while I was wondering whether to leave and come back another day .   Why past simple here and not past continuous? To me both actions are in progress they are not completed
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I did commented on your post.       Is this a correct sentence? As you know that we often make emphatic sentences by using "did"but when we make them we use 1st form but here 2nd form is used.  I am just confused.
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Sometimes I feel difficulty telling the difference between simple past and present perfect.  Given a picture like this:    which one is correct between these two? Or in what sense are they different?  A. He fell off his motorcycle.  B. He has fallen off his motorcycle.
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Where did you go last night?   Where went you last night?   Is there a reason we say the first of the previous two sentences as opposed to the last one?   I know the second sentence is ungrammatical. I was just wondering if there was more of a rule than just "asking questions in the simple past needs 'did' + verb in the present tense."
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Could you please tell me whether this conversation is grammatically correct or not.  A : Where were you last week ? or Can I ask like this "Where have you been in the last week ?"  B : I went to Swiss on a holiday trip. I have just got home. or can I just answer like this "I have been to Swiss."  A : With whom did you go ?  B : I went with Harsh. I first planned to go with Harsh and Chris but as Chris has been to that place many times, he was not interested and didn't join with us.  A : What about your dad ? I can't see him anywhere. Where did he go ?  B : He has gone to Australia on business. He will reach home at weekend.  A : When did he go ?  B : He went yesterday.  I had some doubts on "have been", "have gone". I searched more about it and learned the difference. Now, I framed up this conversation using those words. If there are any mistakes, please let me know. Thank you!
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For example, what is the difference between the following two sentences:     I had a bad day      I had had a bad day