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Q: The RED coloured means that it is equally bad as?
It means that it isn't that bad, but still bad. The one who wrote it probably didn't really know the meaning of that phrase, unless he really thought that making threads isn't a good thing.
Afaik "Did you had a look" is gramatically incorrect... both verbs are in the perfect past, ( Did, Had )... while "Did you have a look ?" is gramatically correct... because it is a past tense construct...
Not a native speaker though... so I maybe wrong... plz correct me if i am...
Did you had a look or Did you have a look ? What's better?
The latter is more correct, as the first one contains a redundancy (or something ). Typically, when you're querying about past/future (e.g. "did you <x>", "will you <x>"), you typically want to have the second verb in the infinitive, rather than changing it to imply past or future, since you've already done that wth your query.
I hope I'm making some kind of sense here; I didn't get any sleep last night, so I might be fuzzy.
"Did you have a look" conveys the meaning that looking was an ongoing, delayed action ( having a look ), implying an acute observation... while "Did you look" conveys a different meaning, of a punctual visual grasp of something... not an attentive observation...
"Did you have a look" conveys the meaning that looking was an ongoing, delayed action ( having a look ), implying an acute observation... while "Did you look" conveys a different meaning, of a punctual visual grasp of something... not an attentive observation...
Sorry, Alexvader; I do not understand it that way; for me the meanings are identical and the "have" part is verbiage. If wanting to ask about an attentive observation it would be clearer to say something like "Did you study/examine/inspect it?". The alternative "Did you look carefully" and similar variants using "look" could cause offence.
Yes, this sentence is better since there is no tension of thinking w.r.t present and past tenses. But in the previous sentence, I was referring to the past, saying "Did you look at it, previously?".
"Did you have a look" conveys the meaning that looking was an ongoing, delayed action ( having a look ), implying an acute observation... while "Did you look" conveys a different meaning, of a punctual visual grasp of something... not an attentive observation...
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). Typically, when you're querying about past/future (e.g. "did you <x>", "will you <x>"), you typically want to have the second verb in the infinitive, rather than changing it to imply past or future, since you've already done that wth your query.
