curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-ask-and-share-about-educational-and-professional-background/657b1e2fad2ffe84ab420a56.md
For most verbs, if you want to make a negative sentence in the Past Simple tense, simply put didn't in front of the main verb. Didn't is short for did not.
Remember that the main verb stays in its simple form. Only the auxiliary verb did is conjugated. For example:
I worked yesterday. - This is an affirmative sentence in the past. The verb work changes to the past tense form worked.
I didn't work yesterday. - This is a negative sentence in the past. Here, only the auxiliary verb did shows the past, and the main verb work stays in its base form.
If someone says that Sophie didn't study computer science, what could you understand from this sentence?
Sophie enjoyed the computer science degree.
Using didn't suggests she did not study it, contradicting the idea of enjoying it.
Computer science is not something Sophie studied in college.
Sophie always studies computer science.
This answer refers to a regular habit, not a specific event in the past.
Sophie is looking forward to studying computer science.
This answer talks about something Sophie wants to do in the future, not something that already happened.
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