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Did I just get or got?

Did I just get or got?

“Get” is the present tense form of the verb and “got” is the past tense form, but the tenses are often used interchangeably. In informal speech, people often question each other with “Do you get it?” or just “Get it?” to check for comprehension.

Did I just see or saw?

You can say either “I just saw” (past simple) or “I’ve just seen” (present perfect); there isn’t much difference in meaning between them, since in any case, “just” fixes the time of the event to the recent past. There’s a slight difference in emphasis, but in most cases, expressions like: “I just saw the movie.”

Did I just find or found?

Therefore when ‘did’ has been used to make the main verb interrogative , the main verb ‘ found’ will come back to bare infinitive form ‘ find’. ‘Did you find? ‘ is correct.

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Did you just say Meaning?

The word just in this case shows that the action say occurred recently or in the immediate past. In other words, the action is done and over with or no longer continuing and therefore can only be in the simple past tense, as in, “You just said that” or its question form, “Did you just say that.

Did and do difference?

DID is used with regular AND irregular verbs in English. Both Do and Does in present tense questions become Did in past tense questions. Compare the following: NOTICE: The only difference between a question in the present tense and a question in the past tense is the change in the auxiliary verb.

Have you got VS did you get?

Did you get that letter you were expecting? Did you get a knife, as I told you to? ‘Have you got’ is different. It could relate to the meaning of ‘get’ (Have you got that letter yet?), but usually it is an idiom related to the meaning of ‘have’ (“possess” or “hold”).

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Did I just watch or watched?

You use the auxiliary verb did with the base of a verb to form a question in the simple past tense. So the correct sentence is: What did I just watch? The other question (What have I just watched?) is grammatical – it’s in the present perfect tense.

Did find or found?

Did find is emphatic, or contrastive. Using the emphatic did find here has an implication of “contrary to what you might have expected, he found him”. Found would be equally good, but without that implication.

Did you find out meaning?

“Did you find out?” implies that if he didn’t, there will be no further opportunity for finding out. “Have you found out?” implies that if he hasn’t, he still might be able to do so. F.

Was just saying meaning?

(also just saying) used when saying something negative or something that other people might not like or might find unusual, without trying to defend or give reasons for what you say: I don’t want to insult anybody, but I’m just saying …

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Did you hear what I say or said?

Did you hear what I just said? is idiomatic, and depending on tone of voice could be made to sound perfectly polite. But it has the potential to be brusque and offensive, if said without care. Did you hear what I say? is neither grammatical, nor idiomatic.