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Bookmark or Share- "Why didn't he" vs. "Why did not he" [duplicate]2 -The shortened form is "Why didn't he come to work?" This is something that confuses learners. But almost everybody discovers by reading that in the long form (1) "did" and "not" don't stand together. Everybody has to learn this except Germans who say it in the same way. I mean the long form. We don't use a contraction such as didn't.
- Difference between 'haven't ...yet' and 'didn't.... yet'“Didn't” however implies a statement about the past, i.e. what has already happened. In my view the “didn't” and “yet” in your second example therefore don't fit naturally together. Note that there are constructions where “didn't” and “yet” would go together, for example “they didn't know yet.”
- "No, I hadn't." vs "No, I didn't." - English Language & Usage Stack ...Did you have lunch at home yesterday? (1) No, I haven't. (2) No, I hadn't. (3) No, I didn't. (4) No, I don't. The relevant word in the question is did, and the corresponding word in the reply would be didn't. So 3. is correct. In the US you might not always find consistency in this. There is this bit of dialogue from a TV cop show:
- differences - Didn't used to or didn't use to? - English Language ...People who write didn't used to are not misspelling didn't use to. If we are talking about the auxiliary pronounced yusta , then both ways of writing it look strange. If you read @Lawler's web page , you'll see that he concludes by saying "Basically, this is a bug in English writing.
- grammar - If conditional "didn't" vs "hadn't" - English Language ...If I didn't eat my greens, I got no dessert. Your sentence (If I didn't come to the meeting, it wouldn't happen) belongs either in category 2. For example: If I didn't come (go is more likely) to the meeting, it wouldn't happen (e.g. I wouldn't get my monthly bonus.) - but I'm definitely planning to attend.
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