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Be in the past tense

what verb changes in the past tense based on the subject can you tell us in the comments yeah this is a tough one it's a hard one but this is one of the most common verbs it's p...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Talking about the pastSubtitles: en

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different

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what verb changes in the past tense

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based on the subject can you tell us in

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the comments yeah this is a tough one

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it's a hard one but this is one of the

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most common verbs

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it's probably the most common verb

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the most common verb

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in english

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yeah so what verb changes in the simple

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past tense

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based on the subject

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it's different

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or you could think of what's the most

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common verb

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one of the verbs we use the most

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shall we give it away

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let's do it okay

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so

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it's the verb to be

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good yeah

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good job captain captain t you're on

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fire good job

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um so we have

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i was

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you were

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she

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he it

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was

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we were

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and they were

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boom

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yep there we go so was and were but

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they're different right so it was that's

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important to

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learn and to know how to use

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one of the most common verbs

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if you need help in memorizing this

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you can also think of i

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um

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yeah

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um so i

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she he

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it

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was

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and those are all singular

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there's just one

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but in english when you have any of the

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plural ones i know you can be singular

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but it can also be plural so we'll think

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of it

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as plural as two or more

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so um you

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we and they

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were were

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yeah and those are the the same for

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example

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i

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was

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tired

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yesterday

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were you tired um no i wasn't tired

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yesterday okay i was energetic wow i had

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a lot of energy

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yeah exactly

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um

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yeah

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um

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okay so that's

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that's was in the past

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um

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