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How to...use "to be supposed to" in 3 different ways

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

The Past Tense

In the past tense, we're talking about things that were supposed to happen but didn't. It was supposed to rain today and you can use it in the past tense. Yesterday I was supposed to finish doing one of my many administration tags,. And in the end, I left it until today because I didn't do it yesterday. Um, there's never enough time in the day. That's an expression you hear a lot of English people say. They're like, there'sNever enough time inTheDay. There is actually, just that a lot of the time we spend not being very productive - or we're focused on the wrong things.

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