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I wasntt at home.
Affirrnative
You ${eren't at band practice.
We can use the short forms wdsl'f and fferen?
I wasn't at home.
You weren't at band practice.
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3 We usually use the short forms hfirs.r't and
weren't in spoken English, and when we write
e-mails, messages, and letters to friends.
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last night / Monday / week / month /
/ year
1 We use *rrs with singular pronouns and singular Christmas
nouns. We use urere with plural pronouns and a year / a month / a week / two
plural nouns. twenty mirrutes ago
2 We do not contract Nros and wEr€.
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3 We use the simple past to talk about situations
in the past.
We use these time expressions to say when
It **s sunny on Sunday.
something happened in the past.
We were at band practice yesterday.
Ye*terday morning, I was late for school.
Luis was overweight when he was young.
Last manth, we were in Spain,
We were at school t$eftty neinutes aga.
Ne gative
We can put the time expressions at the start
or end of the sentence. The meaning does not
change.
Yesterday, there was a concert at our school.
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