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Did you listen or were listening

between did you listen to music and were you listening to music they're very similar there's a small difference and we'll talk about that yeah we'll talk about that after we hav...

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

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about the difference

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between did you listen to music and were

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you listening to music they're very

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similar there's a small difference and

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we'll talk about that yeah we'll talk

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about that after we have our break in a

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in a little bit

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good very nice cool so that's how we

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form questions

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also just quickly another way you could

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ask that is what did you do yesterday um

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actually i'm gonna let you type that

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because it's hard for me to tell you

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what did you do yesterday oh i listened

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to music yesterday

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and that's starting with the w

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question word

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okay

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so

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jen asked the question to

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emily

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um

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did you study finnish yesterday um

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do you remember what emily's answer was

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to that

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she said no

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but she wrote a full sentence or she

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said a full sentence

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oh i was putting medicine in my eye

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um

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so she said no

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i said no i

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didn't

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study finish yesterday

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or just no i didn't

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i didn't

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that's another

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yeah that's another way you could say

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both both are correct

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um it's common to say no i didn't

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um but if you want to say the full

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sentence no i didn't study finnish

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yesterday and what if i did study

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how would i answer that

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i guess i kind of just said

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no

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not quite

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you could say yes i did study finnish

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yesterday

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you don't need to say the whole sentence

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though right that's a lot of information

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yeah so typically

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you just say yes i did yes i did yep

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it's good practice to say the full

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sentence practice speaking pronunciation

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all of that but in normal conversation i

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would just say yeah i did

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so when we say no i didn't study finnish

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yesterday

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what's the structure here

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so we have

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the sub no okay we start with that then

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we have the subject

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plus

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didn't

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plus

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the verb

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and the simple form

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