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What were you doing

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...

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

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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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