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Past actions and regular verbs

Welcome back to Lingoni English. My name is Emily. Today we will be talking about actions that happened in the past. Let's go. Today is Wednesday. Because today is Wednesday, th...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Simple past basicsSubtitles: en

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Welcome back to Lingoni English. My name

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is Emily. Today we will be talking about

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actions that happened in the past. Let's

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go. Today is Wednesday.

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Because today is Wednesday, that means

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yesterday was Tuesday.

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Today

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Yesterday

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What did you do yesterday? Yesterday I

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worked and then I went grocery shopping

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and I cooked dinner and I ate. Yeah.

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What about you?

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Yesterday I also worked and then I saw

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some friends. We went to a restaurant

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for dinner.

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Nice.

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If today is Wednesday, April 20th,

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then last week Wednesday was on April

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13th.

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this week.

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Last week?

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Did you go shopping last weekend?

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No, I didn't go shopping last weekend. I

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went shopping last Thursday. Did you go

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to the gym last week?

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Yeah, I went to the gym on Tuesday and

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Thursday last week.

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Nice.

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To make the simple past of many verbs,

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you add

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