A MEMBER of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Baklis recently raised this very basic but hard-to-explain grammar question: “Sir Joe, my classmate and I argued about this matter: ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her.’ Which is correct and why?”

Here’s my reply to Baklis:

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