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i was working all day so and i turned my phone off wow yeah okay understandable yeah um so if you want to know what a person was doing at a specific time you asked that what wer...
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sorry
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i
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was working
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all day so and i turned my phone off
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wow
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yeah okay
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understandable yeah
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um so
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if you want to know
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what a person was doing at a specific
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time you asked that what were you doing
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what were you doing
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at a specific time
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what were you doing
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during
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the concert yeah what were you doing
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during the concert
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i was listening to the band were you
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dancing um yeah i was dancing too were
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you singing
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sometimes i sang a little bit
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yeah
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yeah and what were you doing during the
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concert i was sleeping oh no
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no
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i was tired
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good um
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so of course with the um
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past continuous when you're forming a
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question here what were you doing um
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or maybe
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um i could hear
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a sound in the background when i called
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emily
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and um today when she came to visit i
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might ask her hey were you cooking this
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morning
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were you cooking this morning
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and again the structure it's was or were
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plus subject
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plus
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verb
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in the ing form
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were you cooking yeah
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um
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was he
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making lunch
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were you taking turns
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things like that
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yeah and then to form the negative just
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to kind of wrap things up here
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um
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how would you put these in the negative
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form
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can you can you let us know
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so i could ask her were you cooking this
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morning that's our question but
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the answer is no
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no
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how would she answer that question in
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the negative form
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were you cooking this morning
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no
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no i wasn't cooking this morning that's
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right
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i wasn't was not
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were you
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studying german this morning
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um
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no i wasn't studying german this morning
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what were you doing um
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i was having coffee oh
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all morning all morning i was having
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coffee
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um
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yeah
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captain t wasn't cooking
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captain t wasn't cooking either
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nor was emily good
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um
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