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Teenage Simple Past
Read the dialog below:
Trisha is at the phone, talking to her friend Tiffany:
(Trisha) So, you know, he called me and stuff...
(Tiffany) Yay!! Wow! Cool! And, like, tell me, what did he say?
(Trisha) Oh, he was, like, totally charming you know, like he was, you know, kinda trying to convince me to go out with him, you know. And I kinda said yes
(Tiffany) Wooo!! Cool! And how did it go? I want, like, A-L-L the details!
(Trisha) Oh, he kinda picked me up to go, you know, to the movies and he was, like, the most polite man ever, opening the car's door and stuff. We kinda watched the move but, you know, we made out the whole movie and stuff...
(Tiffany) Suh-weet! Go on, go on, go on!
(Trisha) But, you know, after that he drove me to those, like, weird places you know, dark and stuff, nobody around, and then he, like, opened his fly and said, you know: "Hey girl, a blowjob would be cool now"...
(Trisha and Tiffany) EEEEWWWW!!!
(Trisha) That was quite it, you know. He was being, like, completely cool and charming and stuff but, you know, he said he thought i kinda wanted it just because I was wearing, you know, my ultra-mini skirt with my kinda ultra-mini top and stuff.
(Tiffany) You know, Trish... men are, like, kinda all the same and stuff...
Grammar Focus: Use of "Like", "you know", "kinda" and "and stuff"
Specially among the teenagers, the above expressions are overly used during oral (no pun intended) communication. There are no rules, use them wherever and whenever you want. Other example:
Shy boy asking a girl out: I'm just, like, you know, asking if you, you know, would like to go out some day to, you know, kinda have some fun and stuff...
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