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What is the difference between What did you do? and What you did? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between What did you do? and What you did? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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The first sentence (What did you do?) is Interrogative of Simple Past Tense and ‘did’ is a helping verb not main verb in this sentence and ‘do’ is used as a main verb. One more thing in the first sentence there would be a question mark. This sentence must end with question mark (?). But normally it’s a common human error otherwise the first sentence is right.
In the second sentence (What you did?) ‘did’ is used as a main verb. Because ‘did’ (second form of Do) is used as a main verb there need not to place a helping verb.
The structure of Interrogative Past Indefinite Tense or Simple Past Tense is given below (with question word)-
1.Question word + did + subject + main verb (first form) + object ?
Example- Where did you go?
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2. Question word + subject + main verb (second form of verb) ?
Example- Where you went?
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- English (US)
What did you do? You don't know the answer to what someone did, so you asked them.
= What did you do last night?
What you did= You know the answer.
= What you did to help that old man was very kind. He looked so happy.
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- English (US) Near fluent
- Arabic
"What did you do?" is a question.
"what you did" is not a question, it's not even a complete sentence. You need to add something before it for it to make sense. For example:
I don't know what you did.
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- English (US)
The first sentence (What did you do?) is Interrogative of Simple Past Tense and ‘did’ is a helping verb not main verb in this sentence and ‘do’ is used as a main verb. One more thing in the first sentence there would be a question mark. This sentence must end with question mark (?). But normally it’s a common human error otherwise the first sentence is right.
In the second sentence (What you did?) ‘did’ is used as a main verb. Because ‘did’ (second form of Do) is used as a main verb there need not to place a helping verb.
The structure of Interrogative Past Indefinite Tense or Simple Past Tense is given below (with question word)-
1.Question word + did + subject + main verb (first form) + object ?
Example- Where did you go?
OR
2. Question word + subject + main verb (second form of verb) ?
Example- Where you went?
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