hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English grammar now you ready let's begin we're looking at the word a
go go now go kinda works along the same words
we used in the previous lesson for and since we use for and sense in as answers
in to questions okay and the questions were how long how long have you been
working here etc now we're moving on from four and since we're looking at a
go now ago is used with the past okay we're talking about words like did
stopped was had now you know sentences we can say something about a goal means
what a goal means before this time our goal means before now before this time
before now it's the same thing before this moment in time
how's that okay so maybe something happened to you a long time ago ten
years ago six minutes ago something right we're going to talk about are
going how to use it in sentences it's used a lot in English just like for
incense so let's not forget about we have to remember to say how long we use
for and since all right keep an idea the little difference between a CO and these
two they all kind of follow the same category but it goes a little more
different so let's look at some let's look at a few sample sentences
we're talking about her go Mike stopped smoking two months ago so that was two
months ago before now people are this time number two
she ate breakfast an hour ago an hour ago
that's an honourable before now number three I was much thinner 20 years ago
it's true I was now we have the past stopped we have the past eight we have
the past was okay 20 years ago 20 years before now an hour ago an hour before
now two months ago two months before no so that concludes this lesson thank you
for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson
goodbye for now