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Rule "'did' with past tense verb"

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Description:	'did' with past tense verb
Message:	The past tense is already inflected in the auxiliary verb "did", so the infinitive (base) form of the verb should be used here.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/grammar-forms-of-do/
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	Did the application worked? Correction suggestion: work Did the applications worked? Correction suggestion: work Did your new applications worked? Correction suggestion: work Did a man called when I was out of the office? Correction suggestion: call Did your car ever had a recent windshield replacement? Correction suggestion: have Why did a man called? Correction suggestion: call
Correct sentences for comparison:	Did your applications work? If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him. Why did a record called 'Daffodil' show a poppy? Did a man called Daffodil come here? The person who eventually did this interesting work was able to show that... The mechanical device that actually did this check failed because of the ingress of water. I just did a simple setup based off that tutorial. This felt so horrible that everything else I did that day sucked. Did this get resolved at all? Did getting dropped off a distance away occur to you? Did the shirt Tom gave you fit?
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ID:	DID_PAST [1]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-18 22:33:07 +0200)