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Negative simple past forms

so i didn't study i didn't read she didn't eat he didn't drive we didn't walk oh that's confusing with finish yeah i think we can just leave this for a moment um good so again m...

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

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so

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i didn't study

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i didn't read

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she didn't eat

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he didn't

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drive

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we didn't walk

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oh that's confusing

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with finish

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yeah i think we can just leave this for

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a moment

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um

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good so again making sure that um

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when you use didn't

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so both did and didn't whether positive

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or negative

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tells you already that it's in the past

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so you just use the simple form of the

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verb

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he didn't walk to school

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we know it's in the past because it's

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didn't

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um

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again a common mistake is he didn't walk

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to school but that's not correct you use

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the simple form he didn't walk to school

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we didn't have a live stream yesterday

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we didn't that's right we're having it

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now

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we didn't have it yesterday

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all right

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good so

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there just a little bit of a review so

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we looked at forming the simple past how

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to use it when to use it right you have

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to use oh should we shoot a quiz on this

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yeah

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oh that's fun in our sentences with

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the simple past

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what's something we said this in the

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beginning you need to have something

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in your

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sentences hmm

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oh i don't remember using the simple

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past

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i know you know yeah yeah when do you

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use the simple past

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i'm like i know you know the answer what

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do you

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in need sentence yeah yeah

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either you're asking the question or

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you're just

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talking you know you're starting a

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conversation

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okay did you have breakfast this morning

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boom this morning

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is

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when

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so

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when you have a question with the simple

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past or you're talking in the simple

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past

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yeah you need the time

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marker of some sort right we need the

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time did you guys have breakfast this

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morning

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yes we did

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um

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good yeah and the verb needs to be in

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the simple past very good

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we looked at how to form it we looked at

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regulars and irregulars we also looked

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at um

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forming questions and negatives right

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um what do you say we let's see

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moving onwards

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i say we

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yeah it's been an hour yeah let's go

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ahead and take a break it's been more

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than an hour we'll take a break now and

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we'll come back

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