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What is the correct sentence in the following?

What is the correct sentence in the following?

Using 'did' with verb consisting '-ed' to make it past tense is correct or not?

I did shared the files
I did share the files

Re: What is the correct sentence in the following?

"I did share the files." is the correct answer.

You cannot use "did" with the "-ed" form of the simple past. Re: your example.

Correct examples: I studied or I did study.
I voted or I did vote.
I raised or I did raise.

Re: What is the correct sentence in the following?

I did share the files

Re: What is the correct sentence in the following?

Mamta
I did share the files


You are correct, but it would be helpful for the questioner if you stated the reason, which is:

"Did" is the past tense of "do" which is an auxiliary verb here, and auxiliaries take a bare infinitival clause as complement. That means that the verb that follows auxiliary "do" is always in the infinitive form, in this case "share", never a tensed form like the past form "shared, or the past participle form, also "shared".

PaulM