appoint or appointed

[new2grammar]

The following is from a newspaper report kindly let me know if it should be appoint or appointed

"Neither did the contractor appoint security guards nor did he put up a fence despite the fact that the work had been going on at the site for the last few years."


Also kindly let me know i using appointed will be wrong?

Regards,​

 

[5jj]

'Appoint' is correct, 'appointed' is wrong.

The contractor did not appointe[STRIKE]d[/STRIKE] security guards.

 

[TheParser]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


Hello, new2grammar:

English is a very difficult language, but occasionally there are some easy aspects.

If you will just remember this rule, you will NEVER make the same mistake again:

After do/does/did, you ALWAYS (no exceptions) use the so-called base form (the form of the verb that you search

for in a dictionary).

Therefore:

Neither did the contractor eat ice cream nor did he drink beer despite the fact that his friends urged him to.