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She made spaghetti

last night but it was like a parmesan sauce that's all it's good okay so she oh yeah she did spaghetti for dinner last night not so much we would maybe say i could see what you'...

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

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pasta

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last night but it was like a

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parmesan sauce

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that's all it's good

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okay so she oh yeah

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she did spaghetti for dinner last night

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not so much we would maybe say i could

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see what you're thinking because do and

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make are similar verbs you could say she

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made spaghetti for spaghetti for dinner

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last night um but you probably wouldn't

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say did for

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making food um

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yeah here you're gonna use a verb that

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means to eat so another way we say eat

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in english

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is um what is it

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the birds outside are going crazy

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it's a little distracting

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so you could say she had

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spaghetti for dinner last night you can

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use the verb had

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when you're talking about eating

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something so i had eggs for breakfast

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and i had cereal for breakfast

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yes she ate spaghetti for dinner last

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night is also totally fine um it's just

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not in the list so

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that's right

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all right um number nine

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she blank

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not go to the basketball game

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ah captain trd oh wait no

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just kidding

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how do we form the negative

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she

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right yeah

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yeah she did she did not go to the

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basket the baseball game sorry i think i

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said basketball i think you did too yeah

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i read basketball

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it's baseball she did not go to the

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baseball

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game

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um great

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she

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yeah so because it's not we have to use

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did she did not

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go to the baseball game good and then

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lastly i blink to the park with my

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friends

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yeah

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i'm giving away the answer here good

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yeah i went to the park with my friends

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past tense of go yep cool

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um

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and

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remember for did not you can contract as

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didn't so

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did not

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equals didn't

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yup so what's the difference between

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when you use did not and when you used

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didn't

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so mostly when we speak we say didn't

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but

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did not is a little more formal so if

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i'm writing something that's very formal

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i'll only write with

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did not i won't make any contractions i

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would not

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