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Simple present negatives

want to say no no i don't strive to work now let's look at a couple of special things happening here so if we're just talking in general and you want to say a regular sentence y...

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i

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want to say no

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no i

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don't strive to work

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now let's look at a couple of special

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things happening here

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so if we're just talking in general and

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you want to say a regular sentence you

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say

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i drive to

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work so

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um

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here

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when you want to ask the question about

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it though

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you you add the word do so do

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you drive to work okay the do goes in

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the beginning

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do you drive to work

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yes

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i drive to work you don't say yes i do

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drive to work it's just yes i drive to

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work

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it is possible sometimes to say do

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but

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um that's we don't need to worry about

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that right now

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if you really want to know it's to add

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emphasis right but normally you don't

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need to do there

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don't need to do and how do we make it

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negative

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if we look here we've got the word don't

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which we talked about contractions

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a moment ago

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this is a contraction of

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don't

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do not

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oh i could say

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no i do not drive to work

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but most people when they're speaking

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english say no i don't drive to work

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that's right it's faster and easier

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all right

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let's try doing a couple more sentences

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here

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um

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so you want to find out

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if people

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go shopping or not

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what does it mean to go shopping

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you buy things you can go shopping for

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food at the grocery store

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or you could go shopping for new clothes

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it just means to go to somewhere

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and buy things that you need yeah you

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pay money and you get something back yep

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so if you want to ask that question

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here we have a phrasal verb so to go

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shopping

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a little tricky

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and you want to ask about them

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so you could ask

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do they

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go shopping

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do they go shopping

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again we have do in the beginning right

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and

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