It is a pleasure for me to join this forum, I would like to ask you about this matter, I did not check if there is something about this but it is urgent for me to know.
So, is it possible to use the adverbs of frequency, in negative sentences, in simple past tense?
Ex.: I didn´t usually eat rice.
She didn´t sometimes go to school.
They didn´t always have a new book.
In case it can be possible, I also want to know if it is used in everyday speaking (or spoken) english.
There seems to be an awkward clash between a frequency not happening and it not happening in the past. The only way round it seems to expressing this idea is to describe a sort of frequency rather than use the simple adverb. You could therefore say: