Last week and specific dates

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is

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october 29th

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last friday was october 22nd

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and so these also these dates are in two

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different weeks two so

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this week

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it's the 29th

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last week

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was the 22nd so here we have the

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expressions this week and last week that

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also goes for months and years so this

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month is october

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what was last month

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what month was last month

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if this month is october last month was

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september september

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and you can do that for years too right

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so this year it's 2021 last year was

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2020.

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so

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that's right so different expressions

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different ways to talk about the time of

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the past

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all right so moving forward let's look

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at some example sentences

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with the simple past

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so

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we can start with the sentence

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yesterday

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i went to the store

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yesterday i went to the store and type

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that in for you

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all right

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all right

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or another sentence could be

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last week megan

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bought groceries

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last week megan bought groceries

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so yesterday i went to the store

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last week

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megan bought groceries

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on tuesday

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my dad called

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on tuesday my dad called

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so these are different kinds of past

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tense sentences they're all using the

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simple past right

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um and now one of the ways so how do we

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know when to use the simple past tense

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in english

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one of the ways that like one of the

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most important ways that we know this

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is by having the specific time mentioned

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so if you don't have the specific time

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you don't necessarily use the simple

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past tense and we can see this in our

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examples too right so

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yesterday

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i went to the store

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in our next sentence that we saw

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last week