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Did eat or did ate?
“Do ate” is not grammatical. The past tense has to be transferred from “ate” to “do” to form “did eat”. The verb ‘to do’ is used as an auxiliary verb to support the verb ‘to eat’.
Which is correct ate or eaten?
Eat is the present simple. Ate is the past simple. Eaten is the past participle.
Is what did you have for dinner correct?
“What did you eat for dinner?” is a grammatically correct sentence. The use of “ate” in the second sentence is completely wrong, as “ate” is simple past tense.
Did you eat and have you eaten?
The correct expression is “Have you eaten?” This is due to the fact that the auxiliary verb “to have” is followed by the past participle of the base verb, for example, in this case, “eat.” While, indeed, the base-verb is “eat,” the past participle of the verb”eaten” is called a lexical verb.
How do you use eaten in a sentence?
Eaten Sentence Examples
- We have just eaten our breakfast.
- He’d eaten neither lunch nor dinner.
- I haven’t eaten real food in weeks.
- She felt as if she hadn’t just eaten a large breakfast.
- Haven’t eaten real food in weeks.
How do you use eaten and ate?
‘Ate’ is Simple Past tense. eg I ate dinner yesterday. ‘Eaten’ is the past participle.
Can you say I haven’t ate?
“I haven’t eaten anything” is correct, because you must use a participle (e.g., “eaten”) after an auxiliary verb (e.g., “have”). Therefore, “have eaten”/“haven’t eaten”/“have not eaten” are possibilities.
Did u have or had?
1 Answer. “Had” is not the appropriate tense to use in this case: you must use “have”. The grammatically correct form of your sentence would be “Did you already have the opportunity to do something?”
Did a mistake or made a mistake?
The correct light verb for mistake is make, and your phrase made a few mistakes is perfectly fine. In contrast, do is the wrong light verb, so your phrase *did a few mistakes is ungrammatical. For more information about light verbs, see Huddleston & Pullum’s Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), p. 290.
How do you reply for Did you eat?
Technically the answer to the question ‘did you eat’ should be: yes, I did, or no, I didn’t. However by answering ‘no, I haven’t, or no, I haven’t eaten’ you are implying that you are going to eat soon. I suggest asking have you eaten?
Did you have dinner or have you had dinner?
“Have you had your dinner?” Is the correct sentence. The verb ‘have had’ is in present perfect tense. This verb describes whether you have just completed the action of taking dinner or not. “Have u had ur dinner” is the correct one.
Is it correct to say ‘you ate last night?
As an aside, you may use ate when asking questions, but only when it is not preceded by the verb “to do” (example: “You ate last night?”). However, this is usually confusing unless said in response to something that suggests that the subject did eat last night, such as an empty takeout container in the living room.
Is it correct to say what did you eat?
What did you eat? is t, he correct, because “did” is already in past, you cannot use is it with “ate”, because “ate” is the past of “eat”, if you use “did” and “ate” in the same sentence is like you are using the past twice.
What did you eat in this sentence?
“What did you eat”, is the correct sentence. (Did+ first form of verb). What did you eat. I believe that you can use “I ate (insert rest of the sentence here like “food”). What did you eat is the correct answer. you can be asking a question in the moment using past tense.
Is “have you ate” a correct expression?
“Have you ate?” is not a correct expression in English grammar. The correct expression is “Have you eaten?” This is due to the fact that the auxiliary verb “to have” is followed by the past participle of the base verb, for example, in this case, “eat.”