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Pat yourself on the back

oh wow someone hasn't patted me on the back in a while you can also pat yourself on the back so that's a little is it an idiot it's a little thing we say if someone did well you...

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

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thank you

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oh wow someone hasn't patted me on the

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back in a while you can also pat

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yourself on the back so that's a little

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is it an idiot it's a little thing we

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say

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if someone did well you could say you

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should pat yourself on the back that

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means you did a good job so

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good expression there

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okay

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so

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that's how we form the past tense of

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regular verbs um verbs that end in

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a vowel and consonant

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um notice it's not necessarily the case

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with vowels that end in um

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sorry verbs that end in two vowels so

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for example

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um

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i mean a lot of them are also

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irregular too so i'm thinking of bi

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becomes like bot

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um

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let's go on to

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i also want to look at some examples

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with verbs that end in e

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by the way captain t needed looked asked

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passed those are all great good job

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so we were talking about types of

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cooking and earlier you said

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um cooking you with cooking you can

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eyeball things

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but

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when you cook things in the oven like

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cakes

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or breads or something like that

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you

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bake them

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and when you bake something

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that

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here the verb i'm gonna type big here

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you can see bake is a verb that ends in

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an e

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so to make it past tense

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do we need to add edie

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bake eat bakeed

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what do you think what do you think it

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might be

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how would i say the sentence if brian

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said what did you do yesterday

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and i

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made a cake you cooked a cake i cooked a

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cake

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use the verb bake and try and write that

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sentence what i would respond with

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i

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um

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anybody got it

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that's okay

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i'll just yes

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yeah great yep yeah i baked the cake i

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baked a cake great

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good job yeah so

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though a lot of verbs are irregular for

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the regular verbs ending in e i don't

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know why i keep doing the american

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