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Tense mistakes students make ALL THE TIME and how to avoid them

Confident Business English

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The Mistakes of Intermediate Learners With the Past Tense

The biggest mistake, especially intermediate learners, is they just don't use the past tense enough to communicate their meaning properly and then it's confusing. Irregular verbs, you have to learn in the past tense, regular verbs, you know that you've got to put E-D but we've got different pronunciation for some regular verbs. Some of them have a D sound, arrived, which is a voiced sound, and some of them have an extraceable, for example, accepted.

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