Re: Know your Garden
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:52 pm
LOL, of course as native English speaker, a very grammatically incorrect one too, that phrase gave me a chuckle... also learning about the structure of Romanian which is very different from English you do amazingly well.
"It's too bad you never saw" or .... or "didn't see" would work.
"It's too bad you never saw" or .... or "didn't see" would work.
Cristian wrote:Thinking of English grammar now... hmmCristian wrote: It's too bad you didn't saw Friends ...that was funny back then![]()
Is it saw or seen? While these two verbs forms are sometimes mixed up, they are pretty easy to keep track of.
Saw is used with the simple past. It can stand alone and doesn’t appear with helping verbs.
Seen is a past participle and forms the perfect tenses. It cannot stand alone and must always appear with a helping verb.
"Didn't saw" is incorrect because it's a double past tense, just like "haven't never" is a double negative. On top of that, the word "saw" is also a present tense verb with an entirely different meaning. Saying,"I didn't saw you yesterday," sounds like you're saying you didn't use a saw to cut that person.
<--- not good with English grammar