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simple past
negative
When a sentence is in negative form, something happens: the main verb does not change.
As we are talking about the past simple, the auxiliary verb must go in the past, changing from do or does, to did.
The auxiliary did undergoes the change of verb tense, indicating that the preceding action has occurred at some point in the past. Therefore, this action, represented in the main verb of the sentence, does not need to be conjugated in the past simple.
To indicate that the sentence is negative, we must accompany the auxiliary verb with the negative auxiliary not, and these must be placed just before the main verb.
how to use ed
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The endings “-ed” and “-ing” are not only used to form the verb tenses of the past and present continuous, they are also used with adjectives. ...
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consept
The past simple is used to talk about a specific action that started and ended in the past. In this case it is equivalent to the Spanish indefinite past tense. Generally, we use it with adverbs of time such as "last year", "yesterday", "last night
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First, the past simple in affirmative sentences in English follows the same structure as the present simple in English. That is, the auxiliary verb is omitted. Therefore, unless you change the main verb to the past, the phrase will stay the same.
So you have to conjugate it. Luckily, this conjugation will be the same for all people, third singular included. Notice how, for example, the verb Speak changes in the past simple:
The word "did" is the past simple form of the verb "do" as you can see in the list of the most used irregular verbs in English. However, in this topic the word "did" was not used as a verb but as an auxiliary, so its translation in Spanish is according to the infinitive verb that accompanies it.
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