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I am and I have

with all of the subjects so we're going to start with um i so i with the verb be you say i am for example i am 30 years old i am tall i no that's the verb have i have brown hair...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Basic sentences and descriptionsSubtitles: en

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be

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with all of the subjects so we're going

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to start with

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um i so i

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with the verb be

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you say i am for example

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i am

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30 years old

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i am tall

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i

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no that's the verb have i have brown

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hair

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um good and then you

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are oh this is probably really tiny

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let me make this bigger

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yeah also you can click zoom in here too

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oh you got it

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cool now we can see so i am you are

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for example young

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she

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is

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he is

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and well what's the other one that uses

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is

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we have it it is

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she is he is it is

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and we

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we

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we

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are

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we are american

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you also have they are

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you can do a new one because it's a

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different i think you should be together

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because it's all third person singular

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but that's

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um what and then they are is a new line

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yeah

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um they are

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um yeah

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and the the kind of useful thing about

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you is that there's only one word for

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you in english

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whereas in other languages there are

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so many words that you can have for the

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word you but english doesn't have so

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many pronouns

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um you can also contract these two right

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so um

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i am because

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i'm

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they're both correct they're just ones

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shorter to say

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you are becomes you're

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so you're young

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she is

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becomes she's

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he is

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becomes he's

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and it is becomes

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it's oh what's the apostrophe with the

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apostrophe hello

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um good and then we are becomes we're

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and they are becomes there

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now notice that all of these have

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apostrophes right because you're cutting

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out for example an i'm you're cutting

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out the letter a replacing it with an

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apostrophe that's what we say it takes

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the place

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you are your

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becomes or you know the apostrophe takes

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the place of the a

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so on and so forth

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um okay so that's the verb be

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which is important to use

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um

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