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oh hey hi welcome to grammar with dave i hope you don't mind i just bought a hamburger and

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some chips for my lunch i'm really hungry actually that reminds me yesterday i read a true story

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about an unusual criminal called the Hamburglar.

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He broke into a fast food restaurant in Florida.

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He went into the restaurant in the middle of the night.

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He wanted to steal all their money, of course,

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but he didn't steal the money straight away.

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First, he switched on the grill,

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took a hamburger,

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cooked it,

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and ate it. When he finished he took the money and then he left. He didn't do this

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just once, he did it twice in two different restaurants. So how did the

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police find him? Well security cameras in the kitchens filmed everything the

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thief did. That made it easy for the police to identify him. All those

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sentences were in the past simple. We use the past simple to talk about finished

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actions in the past, for example for the events in a story. Let's look at some of

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the sentences again. These are all in the past simple affirmative. These are

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regular verbs. They finish in ED. And these are irregular. Many common verbs in

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English have an irregular past form. To make the negative form of the past

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simple, we put didn't before the main verb. And to make the question form, we

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put did before the subject. Anyway, yes, the police arrested the Hamburglar and

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now he's in prison. Please remember that if you ever see a crime it's really

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important to report it to the police immediately. Anyway, talking about

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hamburgers is making me hungry again. It's lunchtime at last. Now where did I

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put my food? Didn't I put it on that table? Did you see where I put it? Oh well,

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Thanks for watching.