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Every month English4Today brings you a featured video. This month's video is part of our series on the formation and use of the Simple Past Tense. The great thing about using the video learning section on English4Today is that you also have access to full text explanations, examples and plenty of exercises if you have free membership. The Simple Past series has several videos that show you clearly and simply how to form the Simple Past, use the interrogative and negative and how and when to use it. October set a new record: Learn English ... free! 
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Grammar Spot : Adverbs of Manner 
Adverbs of manner tell us how something happens. They are usually placed after the main verb or after the object. Examples:
BE CAREFUL! The adverb should not be put between the verb and the object:
If there is a preposition before the object, e.g. at, towards, we can place the adverb either before the preposition or after the object. Example:
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This month's question was sent in by Rick in the USA: "Why do we say “I did not meet him” rather than “I did not met him”, since this is the past tense?" Hi Rick. I’m going to answer this one although the answer is explained in the English4Today Online Grammar under the section dealing with forming the negative. Let’s do a quick review of how the negative is formed in English. First we’ll take your sentence in the affirmative:
That’s fine… we have the verb in the Simple Past (don’t forget that ‘meet’ is an irregular verb and the past form is ‘met’). Now let’s make it negative... |
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