Phrase: Your USB doesn’t working, and then he asked me why...

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello everybody,

My friend gave me an USB to copy the file. But it’s not working, so I tell him like this:

Your USB doesn’t working, and then he asked me why:

I said because it doesn’t appear on the computer.

Is that sentences right?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Rosario,

There are two forms for the Present tense - the simple and the continuous - It works (Simple) and It is working (Continuous). These are both positive statements. When you change them into negative statements, they are as follows:

It doesn’t work and It isn’t working.

In your sentence you have mixed the two together (doesn’t working).

Alan

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Many thanks Alan,

Now it’s clear for me.