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ah grammar again boring

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or is it

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there are many ways to learn english

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grammar but one of the best ways is to

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learn from mistakes

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hello my name is maddie from poc english

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and in this lesson we are going to learn

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english grammar by reviewing five very

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common english grammar mistakes let's

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start with number one

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look at this sentence

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i laid down and went to sleep

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i laid down and went to sleep what is

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wrong with this sentence

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that's right the problem is with the

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verb laid but what is wrong with late

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there are two very similar and confusing

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verbs in english language

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lay and lie

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to lay means to put something down or to

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put something somewhere

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to lie means to go in a horizontal

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position so if you're like this and if

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you decide to lie you would go like this

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for example here's a notebook i'm going

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to lay

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the notebook on the table

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i'm going to lay

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the notebook

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on the table so i lay something

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somewhere or i lay something down but

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if i am tired

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i would lie

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in bed

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lie in bed

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so you lay something down or you lie

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down yourself

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or here's another example imagine there

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is a baby in your arms what would you do

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if the baby falls asleep

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you would lay

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the baby down right

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but imagine you yourself are tired and

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then there was a couch what would you do

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you would lie down on the couch

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so far so good right

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the problem begins when you start

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talking about the past why

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the past form of the verb lie is

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lay

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that's confusing right so when you say

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lay are you talking about lay something

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now or are you talking about the past of

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look at this sentence yesterday i was

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tired so i lay

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in bed i lay in bed the past of lay

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which means to put something down or to

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put something somewhere is laid

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yesterday i laid down the book on the

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table

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i laid down the book so yesterday i lay

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on the couch

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yesterday i laid down the book now let's

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go back to the original sentence i laid

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down and went to bed

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we're talking about past right

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and if i want to say that yesterday i

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went in a horizontal position i

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shouldn't say laid i should use the past

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of lie which is lay

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i hope i've made this clear even native

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speakers sometimes use lay instead of

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laid and laid instead of lay so it's

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very confusing

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now time for the second sentence look at

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this one

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i haven't a car i travel by train

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i haven't a car i travel by train what's

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wrong

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the problem is with the verb haven't

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look at these three sentences i have a

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car

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i have a meeting

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he has cereal for breakfast

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what is the main verb in these three

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sentences

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have or in the third one has which is

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the third person singular form of the

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verb have

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how do you make these sentences negative

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now the main verb is have so if you want

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to make them negative you should say

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don't have

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not haven't you say don't have or for

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the third person singular doesn't have i

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have a car

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i don't have a car not i haven't a car i

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don't have a car i have a meeting

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i don't have a meeting

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he has cereal for breakfast

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he doesn't have cereal for breakfast we

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don't say he hasn't no he doesn't have

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this is true for simple present however

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if you are using present perfect it's

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different look at this sentence

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i have played tennis

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i have played tennis this is present

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perfect now tell me which one is the

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main verb is it have

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no

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the main verb here is played

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plate is the main verb and have is the

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auxiliary verb

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when have is an auxiliary verb usually

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in present perfect tense instead of

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don't have you should say haven't so

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what is the negative of this sentence i

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have played tennis

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i haven't played

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tennis you don't say i don't have play

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tennis no i haven't played tennis

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so to sum up if have is your main verb

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the negative is don't have

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if have is an auxiliary verb the

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negative is haven't

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number three

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look at this sentence can you suggest me

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a good dentist

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can you suggest me a good dentist

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what's wrong with this sentence

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that's right there is a problem with the

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use of the verb suggest but how can we

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use the verb suggest correctly well

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there are three ways you can use the

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verb suggest in english language number

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one you can use this structure suggest

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something to somebody for example

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i can suggest

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a good dentist to you

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suggest

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a good dentist to you

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or i can suggest a very good restaurant

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to your brother so you see we use

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suggest something to somebody now the

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second way you can use the verb suggest

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is to say

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suggest doing something now we use this

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structure when we want to talk about

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activities for example

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i suggest going for lunch

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i suggest going for lunch i'm suggesting

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an activity or

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i suggest visiting a dentist

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i suggest visiting a dentist

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and the third way you can use the verb

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suggest is by using this structure

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suggest

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that

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somebody should do something

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suggest that somebody should do

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something this is a longer sentence

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how can we use it look at this example

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he suggested that i

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should visit a dentist

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he suggested that

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i should visit a dentist suggests that

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somebody should do something so let's go

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back to the original sentence can you

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suggest me a good dentist what's wrong

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with this

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you should say can you suggest something

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to somebody can you suggest a good

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dentist to me that's the right form

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common mistake number four but wait

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a video now mistake number four look at

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this sentence

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please describe me your father

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please describe me your father what's

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wrong

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that's right there is a problem with the

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use of the verb describe but how should

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we use describe

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like suggests you should say describe

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something to somebody or describe

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somebody to somebody so instead of

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saying describe

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me your father you should say describe

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your father to me

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can you describe your best friend to me

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could you describe your hometown to me

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can you describe your parents to me so

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describe me your parents or describe me

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your father is wrong you should say

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describe your father to me describe

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somebody or something to me

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i can't remember her can you describe

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her to me

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and the last common mistake we are going

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to learn together in this lesson look at

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this sentence

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it is

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a lot of noise in the street

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it is a lot of noise

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in the street

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what's wrong

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there is a problem with the use of the

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pronoun it when you want to say

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something exists somewhere you don't use

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it you use there for example in my

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bedroom there is a phone

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there is a phone

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i'm talking about its existence there is

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a phone or here

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there is a microphone

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let's go down or

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there is an ipad on my desk or

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there is a power bank

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if the things you were talking about are

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more than one maybe two three four or

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many you don't use there is you say

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there are

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there are some books

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on my desk there are some books on my

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desk if you're talking about the past

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you can say there was for one thing or

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there were for a couple of things there

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was a tall guy in the party there was a

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tall guy one tall guy in the party

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yesterday there were many beautiful

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girls in the party yesterday

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so back to the original sentence

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it is a lot of noise in the street

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should be

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there is a lot of noise why there is why

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not there are because noise is singular

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so there is a lot of noise in the street

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all right that's it guys i hope you've

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enjoyed this lesson see

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you