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did you vs. do you - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Yes, those are very common They are so fundamental to the English language that you will hardly be able to speak any English at all without them First of all, did is the past tense form of the verb to do (which is also used as an auxiliary verb to help form questions in English) When you say that you did something, you're talking about something that happened in the past Do is the present
word choice - Can you help me with about on that? - English Language . . . Can you help me about that? X about Y has a few meanings One meaning is that Y is something to understand or learn Another meaning is that you are near Y such that you can be considered exposed to it However, about kinda-sorta has an underlying "need" to work like a location (and it also has a less common meaning that's related to location
word usage - Idiom for doing something you didnt ask - English . . . The mere fact that this isn't already obvious to you must be evidence that the meaning isn't completely transparent That's why you probably shouldn't go looking for "idiomatic" usages - most of whose meanings need to be individually learned and remembered (and usually don't help you with other idioms) Learn literal usages first!
Idiom for you cant undo the effects of having said something Sounds like you found the one you were looking for, but there are a number of other English idioms that also might work, depending on how exactly you are using them: "You can't unring a bell" (or perhaps "you can't unring that bell") "You can't unscramble an egg" Saying something you later regret is "putting your foot in your mouth" "Closing the barn door after the horse has bolted" is doing
What did you say? or What did you said? [duplicate] No, you can't It is a rule of grammar that when "do" is used as an auxiliary verb, as it is in your example, it must be followed by a plain (infinitival) verb form like "say", not past tense "said"
Its an interesting topic for me versus Its interesting to me . . . The two rules you state strike me as an oversimplification The examples posed in your source are all correct, but something about the rules doesn't sit right with me I can't put my finger on it, so I'll leave it for someone else to answer In the meantime, can you give us examples of the sentences you've recently written with interesting for me?
Learned vs have learned - English Language Learners Stack Exchange 'I have learned' is still about learning in the past but it better describes a period of learning - ie something you learned over time, or something that you came to learn later, perhaps after a period of ignorance over something: I have learned a better way to do this I have learned that I was wrong I have learned from my mistakes
american english - What does Nailed it mean? - English Language . . . If you scored 100% on an exam, you "nailed it" It could also mean something bad: suppose you hit and crushed a mailbox with your car You "nailed" the mailbox "got nailed" means you got hit by something or were caught doing something wrong To "nail down" something means to get a focused, finished answer to something