This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 780.

Put your confusion in the past with this tip about a confusing English word.

Welcome to the All-Eears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English

conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to

learning English. Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you

from Boston and New York City, USA. USA. Today our listener Stefano asks us how to use the word past. We'll dig into the details and clear up your confusion on this word

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Hey Michelle how's it going?

Hey, Lindsey, it's going pretty good. How are you?

I'm good. We actually record this episode.

We are recording this a couple of weeks in advance, so we just had the 4th of July did you catch any fireworks I did I

caught some amazing fireworks yeah I was out in I got to see them along the New York skyline because I was actually in New Jersey and

So I got I had this head of view of the world trade center the new world trade center

And the fireworks going off around that very very moving and

yeah really they were beautiful some of the best I've seen.

Wow you lucky dog that's amazing I someone was just talking about that here in Boston about how amazing the New York fireworks are.

I mean, you would expect that, right, of New York, but that's so cool.

That's so cool.

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