Did you tell someone "I love you" straight to its face? How did it went?
I will when I physically meet Rin for the first time.
And, uh, people aren't 'its,' sweetheart. You're looking for 'their'.
For 'How did it went,' I'll need to go into verb bullshit -- infinitives, in this case.
An INFINITIVE is the basic, uninflected, un-conjugated form of a verb. CONJUGATION is when you take an infinitive -- a verb -- and list all the different INFLECTIONS of that verb. In the case of 'go,' you would list* 'go, goes, gone, going, and went,' each of which is a different form of 'go,' which is how you say 'go' in a different tense.
* Probably not in that order. I learned conjugations in Spanish, and we charted them out, so in this instance I'm just listing them off the top of my head)
See, 'did' is the past tense of the helping verb 'do'. When you use a helping verb, you INFLECT *it* instead of the verb it helps.
In this instance, you are using the past-tense inflected 'do' (which is 'did,' as you correctly wrote), to "help" the sentence's verb, which is 'go' in this case.
When you use a helping verb, you INFLECT the helper, and leave the VERB as a bare infinitive.
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The second issue, which comes first in your inquiry, is in your use of tenses in the first phrase ("Did you tell someone ...?").
In this phrase, you use the PAST tense (sometimes called the 'SIMPLE PAST' tense, to differentiate it from the other PAST tenses, like PAST PERFECT and PAST CONTINUOUS), rather than the PRESENT PERFECT tense.
In the PRESENT PERFECT tense, you use [HAVE/HAD] + [the PAST PARTICIPLE of your acting VERB] to describe a situation or action which happened in the INDEFINITE past. There is no implied start or end time, no implied period which the query is asking about.
SIMPLE PAST describes a situation or action that ended in the DEFINITE past. This means that there is (either an implied or specified) time-frame which the question refers to.
EXAMPLES
Present Perfect: "I've eaten my fair share of tacos." (Still eats tacos)
Simple Past: "I ate my fair share of tacos, back in the day." (No longer eats tacos)
Present Perfect: "I've kissed a lotta girls in my time." (Still kisses girls, 'their time' is something that is not considered to have 'ended')
Simple Past: "I kissed a lotta girls in my time." (Does not kiss girls anymore, v. lame)
Present Perfect: "Why haven't you said anything?!?" (She hasn't dumped you yet, you can still say something)
Simple Past: "Why didn't you say anything?!?" (You're fucked, the time for sayin' stuff is over, nigga)
Sometimes, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the Simple Past and Present Perfect, but I can't think of any examples for that, so, uh, moving on.
In your question, you asked, 'Did you tell,' rather than 'Have you told,' which implies that the question being asked is being asked about a specific time period or event.
And, uh, people aren't 'its,' sweetheart. You're looking for 'their'.
For 'How did it went,' I'll need to go into verb bullshit -- infinitives, in this case.
An INFINITIVE is the basic, uninflected, un-conjugated form of a verb. CONJUGATION is when you take an infinitive -- a verb -- and list all the different INFLECTIONS of that verb. In the case of 'go,' you would list* 'go, goes, gone, going, and went,' each of which is a different form of 'go,' which is how you say 'go' in a different tense.
* Probably not in that order. I learned conjugations in Spanish, and we charted them out, so in this instance I'm just listing them off the top of my head)
See, 'did' is the past tense of the helping verb 'do'. When you use a helping verb, you INFLECT *it* instead of the verb it helps.
In this instance, you are using the past-tense inflected 'do' (which is 'did,' as you correctly wrote), to "help" the sentence's verb, which is 'go' in this case.
When you use a helping verb, you INFLECT the helper, and leave the VERB as a bare infinitive.
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The second issue, which comes first in your inquiry, is in your use of tenses in the first phrase ("Did you tell someone ...?").
In this phrase, you use the PAST tense (sometimes called the 'SIMPLE PAST' tense, to differentiate it from the other PAST tenses, like PAST PERFECT and PAST CONTINUOUS), rather than the PRESENT PERFECT tense.
In the PRESENT PERFECT tense, you use [HAVE/HAD] + [the PAST PARTICIPLE of your acting VERB] to describe a situation or action which happened in the INDEFINITE past. There is no implied start or end time, no implied period which the query is asking about.
SIMPLE PAST describes a situation or action that ended in the DEFINITE past. This means that there is (either an implied or specified) time-frame which the question refers to.
EXAMPLES
Present Perfect: "I've eaten my fair share of tacos." (Still eats tacos)
Simple Past: "I ate my fair share of tacos, back in the day." (No longer eats tacos)
Present Perfect: "I've kissed a lotta girls in my time." (Still kisses girls, 'their time' is something that is not considered to have 'ended')
Simple Past: "I kissed a lotta girls in my time." (Does not kiss girls anymore, v. lame)
Present Perfect: "Why haven't you said anything?!?" (She hasn't dumped you yet, you can still say something)
Simple Past: "Why didn't you say anything?!?" (You're fucked, the time for sayin' stuff is over, nigga)
Sometimes, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the Simple Past and Present Perfect, but I can't think of any examples for that, so, uh, moving on.
In your question, you asked, 'Did you tell,' rather than 'Have you told,' which implies that the question being asked is being asked about a specific time period or event.
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