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we can also use tour as a verb: my favourite band are touring at the moment. |
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we can also use live to talk about tv programmes or sporting events that we can see at the same time as they are happening: the world cup final is shown live in over 160 countries. |
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we often use a venue to talk about a place where bands or singers play concerts: there are lots of great venues in london. |
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we use the past simple for 1. a single completed action in the past: my boyfriend bought tickets to see her play live. then i moved to london. |
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we use the past simple for 2. a repeated action or habit in the past: i listened to her second album all the time. i practised for hours every day. |
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we use the past simple for 3. a state in the past: my boyfriend wanted to sell it on ebay. i loved dance music. |
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we use the past continuous for 1. an action in progress at a point of time in the past: five years ago i was living in new york. twenty minutes later i was standing in front of 1000 people. |
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we use the past continuous for 2. the background events of a story: all the fans were singing along. |
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we use the past continuous for 3. an action in progress when another (shorter) action happened: while i was playing my last track, the manager came over and congratulated me. |
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we can also use the past continuous when the longer action is interrupted: while we were having a picnic, it started to rain. |
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we can use when or while with the past continuous: he phoned me when/while i was waiting for the train. |
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we don't usually use while with the past simple. |
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we can use used to or the past simple to talk about repeated actions, habits or states in the past: i went/used to go to a lot of gigs; i listened/used to listen to her second album all the time; back then i was/used to be one of lady gaga's biggest fans. |
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we can't use used to to talk about one action in the past: that night she sang for over two hours. |
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we can only use used to to talk about the past. to talk about habits or repeated actions in the present, we use usually + present simple. |
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i used to work at the weekend (i don't work at the weekend now). |
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i usually work at the weekend (i work at the weekend now). |
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used to is the same for all subjects. |
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in negative we can say didn't use to or never used to: i never used to go to gigs when i was young. |
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when there's more than one action in the past, we often use the past perfect for the action that happened first: cho joined the expedition after luke had gone back to the uk; he also read messages that people had sent him; ed calculated that he'd walked about 6000 miles. |
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if the order of past events is clear from the context, we don't usually use the past perfect: we had dinner, watched tv and then went to bed. |
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we don't always use the past perfect with before and after because the order of events is clear: we (had) finished eating before they arrived. i went home after the meeting (had) finished. |
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the past perfect is the same for all subjects. |
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we often use the past perfect after realised, thought, forgot, and remembered: i realised i'd left my wallet at home. |
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we often use by the time, as soon as, when, because and so to make sentences with the past perfect and past simple: the party had finished by the time he arrived. |
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we use the same adverbs and time phrases with the past perfect as we do with the present perfect simple: tracy had just/already finished it. |
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sometimes english speakers soften the way they express their opinions so that they don't sound rude or offensive. |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 1. some of them can be quite aggressive at times. |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 2. on the whole, most fans just want to see a good game. |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 3. footballers tend to earn rather a lot of money. |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 4. that's not very sensible behaviour, is it? |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 5. generally speaking, most footballers are just normal people. |
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we often use phrases to soften our opinions: 6. perhaps some people can take it a bit too seriously. |
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after tend to we use the infinitive: he tends to be a bit mean. |
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rather, quite, not very and a bit usually come before an adjective: they can get quite/rather/a bit noisy at times. |
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we often put generally speaking and on the whole at the beginning of a sentence: generally speaking/ on the whole, most football fans aren't violent at all. |
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we often use not very + positive adjective to criticise sb or sth politely: that's not very sensible behaviour. (that's stupid behaviour); he wasn't very polite (he was rude). |
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sometimes english speakers soften the way they express their opinions so that they don't sound rude or offensive. |
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after tend to we use the infinitive: he tends to be a bit mean. |
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rather, quite, not very and a bit usually come before an adjective: they can get quite/rather/a bit noisy at times. |
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we often put generally speaking and on the whole at the beginning of the sentence: generally speaking/on the whole, most football fans aren't violent at all. |
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we often use not very + positive adjective to criticise sb or sth politely: that's not very sensible behaviour (that's stupid behaviour); he wasn't very polite (he was rude). |
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