NOTES ON AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE, & INTERROGATIVE FORMS AFFIRMATIVE The affirmative of the simple past tense is simple. I was in Japan last year She had a headache yesterday. We did our homework last night. NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE For the negative and interrogative simple past form of "do" as an ordinary verb, use the auxiliary "do", e.g. We didn't do our homework last night. The negative of "have" in the simple past is usually formed using the auxiliary "do" , but sometimes by simply adding not or the contraction "n't" . The interrogative form of "have" in the simple past normally uses the auxiliary "do". EXAMPLES They weren't in Rio last summer. We didn't have any money. We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower. We didn't do our exercises this morning. Were they in Icel...
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