Hadn't versus Doesn't ESL Game Tutorial
We have a new ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) game on the topic of Hadn’t versus Doesn’t usage, in English, today, and have got the feeling that it is applicable for lots of native English speakers as well. After all, name me 765 people who haven’t had a problem in their English speaking life getting the tenses totally correct when choosing among …
- didn’t
- doesn’t
- hadn’t
- wasn’t
… and just think how nice we are not confusing the issue with hasn’t usage! But before we go on using “but” at the starts of sentences, let’s go over what these words above amount to. They represent, each two words, where the second word “not” is shortened to “n’t” because life’s too short.
As we do often do with ESL games, there is the …
- functionality to add your own Hadn’t versus Doesn’t sentences into the mix … and data wise there is …
- the one “sentences” Javascript array using the “/” delimitation to separate (answer) dropdown options, the correct one flagged by an initial capital letter, and hidden from the viewer just by not populating HTML title= attributes
The Hadn’t versus Doesn’t game is just written in HTML (with some Javascript and CSS) that you can download with hadnot_vs_doesnot.html and/or try yourself at this live run link.
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