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What did you do yesterday

words we use so what did you do yesterday um yesterday i went shopping should i add more or is that good well maybe type type the question okay so what did you do yesterday let'...

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

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the

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words we use

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so what did you do yesterday um

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yesterday i

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went shopping

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should i add more or is that good

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well maybe type type the question okay

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so

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what

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did you do yesterday

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let's look at another one

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what did you do last weekend

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last weekend i went to a football game

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did you eat any good food

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i

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yes i ate

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a hot dog

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why it's true it was a good news

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okay i was starving

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but it wasn't good

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good okay

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all right so let's look at the question

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did you eat any good food

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thank you

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um

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you'll notice that the

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structure here

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what's the first word in the sentence

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did

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right did you eat any good food

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so when you're asking a question in

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english

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you put the helping verb in the

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beginning

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right

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and especially for

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past tense

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you have that did there right you see

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that a lot

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last week was your birthday happy late

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birthday yeah happy belated birthday

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great so vivi ate some cake

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awesome i hope it was delicious sounds

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nice

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oh vegan cake cool not as much

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um

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great yeah so we have let's look at the

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structure i'll type it out here so we

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have did

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plus subject

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plus

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verb in

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the simple form

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um

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and the rest of the the sentence so

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that's for questions

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again

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did you

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eat you know whatever

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did you eat some good food

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that's our example mm-hmm

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with that yeah i'm never gonna yeah

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okay so did you eat so okay jen said she

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made hummus

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