[General] He did go to school

[cloa]

"He did go to school"- basically combine a past tense verb and present tense verb for an overall past tense. I was just wondering and searching for similar examples.

 

[teechar]

Re: What is this verb form called

Hello cloa, and welcome to the forum.

What you have is not a combination of two tenses. It is an emphatic form of the past tense.

https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/emphatic-form.html

 

[emsr2d2]

Cloa, I have changed your thread title. Titles should include some/all of the words/phrases you are querying.

 

[Tdol]

This might be used after someone said that he didn't go to school as a way of contradicting them. It is past tense, but it is used for emphasis in cases like contradiction.