Megan bought groceries

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saw

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last week megan bought groceries what's

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the time there

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what's the specific time mentioned

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so when we say last week

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megan brought groceries

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is it groceries is that when

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no no

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is megan when

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no no

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what about bot

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it's in the past tense

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yeah that helps you know that it's in

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the past but it doesn't specify

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the time that's right

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yeah i mean bot is in the past tense but

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the specific the time marker yeah how do

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we know what the time was

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it's last week right yeah so

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exactly so in the second sentence

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last week megan bought groceries and

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then if we look again at the next

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sentence we had on tuesday my dad

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called so again the time marker that

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shows the time

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tuesday

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on tuesday

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right

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so again this is a specific time right

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it's always a somewhat specific time you

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can also um

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use

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there are other expressions you can use

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too so like when i was younger when i

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was younger i had a dog

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or

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when i

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was

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when i lived in oklahoma

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i

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lived in tulsa

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when i lived in oklahoma i worked at

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this store

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and so here these when clauses they're

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sort of like adverbial clauses they tell

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you when the time is they specify

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at this specific time this happened

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yeah yeah so when i was younger i had a

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dog

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all right so that's when we know when to

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use the simple past

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um

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now

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how do we form how do we make the simple

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past great question so our examples gave

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you this structure a little bit there

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are two main ways that we make the past

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tense the simple past

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um

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great awesome

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um

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um

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good captain t

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yep when i was young i listened to the

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radio