Expanded  Tenses (2) - 79

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What are Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative sentences?
Russia is the largest country in the world. (Affirmative)
China is not a small country.  (Negative sentence)
What is Alkali? ('wh' Interrogative sentence)
Are you Susan? ('yes/no' interrogative sentence)

Tenses Expansion

Knowledge of expanded Tenses is necessary to form Negative and Interrogative Sentences, if it doesn't have anomalous finite Verb.
NOTE: In Past tense 'did' (Helping verb) is used to expand the Past tense. Some people use expanded Tenses form, for asserting something


MODEL EXPANDED TENSES (Past tense)
She went to Thailand last week. ( Normal tense form)
She did go to Thailand last week. (Expanded Tense form).
She did went to Thailand last week.

We saw the boss in the morning. (Normal tense form)
We did see the boss in the morning. (Expanded tense form)
We did saw the boss in the morning.

Making different types of sentences  in the Past tense

MODEL - 1
He made a  mistake (Normal tense)
He did make a mistake (Expanded tenses)
He did not make a mistake (Negative sentence)
Did he make a mistake? (‘yes/no’ question)
Didn’t he make a mistake?(‘yes/no’ negative question)
What did he do? (‘Wh’ question)

MODEL-2
They met the president last week. (Normal tense)
They did meet the president last week.(Expanded tenses)
They didn’t meet the president last week.(Negative sentence)
Did they meet the president last week?(‘yes/no’ question)
Didn’t they meet the president last week?(‘yes/no’ negative question)
When did they meet the president? (‘Wh’ question)
Who did they meet last week? (‘Wh’ question)

MODEL -3
They had dinner at Blue diamonds.(Normal tense)
They did have dinner at Blue diamonds.(Expanded tenses)
They didn’t have dinner at Blue diamonds.(Negative sentence)
Did they have dinner at blue diamonds? (‘yes/no’ question)
Didn’t they have dinner at Blue diamonds?(‘yes/no’ negative question)
Where did they have dinner? (‘Wh’ question)


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