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24 Dec 2013
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English (US)
Question about English (US)
Last month my classmate gave an example of a sentence to our teacher in English class. When he submitted the sentence, our teacher said that his sentence was wrong. I'm wondering why it is wrong, so I will post the sentence here that my classmate gave as an example and I will ask a question about it.
His sentence is:
"Did I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Our teacher said, that this is wrong because "dreamed" should be "dream" only because "Did" was already there. Can I ask why do we need to make it "dream" instead of "dreamed"? Is it because we need only one of them to form a past tense? So if we make the sentence like this:
"Do I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Is the sentence correct now because we removed "Did" and changed it into "Do" (which is no longer a past form) so we no longer need to change "dreamed" into "dream"?
Can you explain this to me please?
Last month my classmate gave an example of a sentence to our teacher in English class. When he submitted the sentence, our teacher said that his sentence was wrong. I'm wondering why it is wrong, so I will post the sentence here that my classmate gave as an example and I will ask a question about it.
His sentence is:
"Did I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Our teacher said, that this is wrong because "dreamed" should be "dream" only because "Did" was already there. Can I ask why do we need to make it "dream" instead of "dreamed"? Is it because we need only one of them to form a past tense? So if we make the sentence like this:
"Do I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Is the sentence correct now because we removed "Did" and changed it into "Do" (which is no longer a past form) so we no longer need to change "dreamed" into "dream"?
Can you explain this to me please?
His sentence is:
"Did I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Our teacher said, that this is wrong because "dreamed" should be "dream" only because "Did" was already there. Can I ask why do we need to make it "dream" instead of "dreamed"? Is it because we need only one of them to form a past tense? So if we make the sentence like this:
"Do I dreamed that we were perfectly entwined?"
Is the sentence correct now because we removed "Did" and changed it into "Do" (which is no longer a past form) so we no longer need to change "dreamed" into "dream"?
Can you explain this to me please?
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Here are some very simple correct examples of how dream is used in past tenses:
I dream
I dreamed
I do dream
I did dream
Do I dream?
Did I dream?
When do/did is used, only this word will become past tense, and "dream" will never change tense.
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