In this grammar refresh, we're going to take a look at something called informal contraction.
Now, these informal contractions are contractions that we really only use in spoken English.
You're never going to really write these.
In any type of academic or formal writing, the only time you might write this is if you're writing
maybe dialogue and you're trying to write exactly what someone said, but you're not going to really
use this in your writing.
These are more for speaking purposes.
And these contractions, when you do write them, there's no apostrophes.
So they're not likely, although the formal contractions we've seen, you know, don't add wouldn't
those are more formal.
Those are OK to include in your writing.
But these are informal contractions.
These are just for speaking.
And they make you sound more like a native English speaker.
They make your English sound more natural.
But let's look at a few.
We have the phrase, what are you doing?
You can ask someone, what are you doing?
But a lot of times if you say it like that, what are you doing?
It sounds.
Unusual, right, doesn't sound natural, so a lot of times native speakers will slow it altogether.
What you're doing right, what you're doing.
So what are you becomes watcha there and then doing and even sometimes doing well, drop the gee doing
what you're doing.
So it's good to get used to hearing this because so you hear it for the first time.
You might have no idea what the person is saying, what you're doing, you don't know that's what are
you doing it.
But it's very common what you do or what are you doing it slurred together.
Another common one is let me see if you take let me and we put it together real fast and it gets.
Let me let me see.
Let me see.
Next one, I don't know if you can bring that together and make it, I don't know, but I don't know.
I don't know.
Donna, Donna, I don't know, a very fast.
I was together, I don't know.
Next one.
What about you?
I to say it like that, but you want to make it more casual.
What about you?
And that last one, very casual, you wouldn't say it to your boss or anything, but does exist.
In this grammar refresh, we're going to continue looking at informal.
Expressions that we only use with speaking.
Is are these informal contractions?
You're not going to write these ever, but you do use them for speaking.
Here, we're going to take a look at some very common ones that have to do with the phrases want to
have got to and going to.
Want to I've got to go into.
So let's look at the examples to see this, the first one, I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.
I don't want to.
Awana.
Is from want to you can say, I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip, but you can see how it takes
me more time, right?
I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.
And if you're not used to speak in English, actually quite difficult to get all those words in, I
don't want to leave a 20 percent.
But you can make it easier.
I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.
I don't want to want to I don't want to leave the one who is.
The next example.
It's not going to happen, believe me, it's not going to happen here, we have gone.
It's not going to.
China is.
Going to right, it's not going to happen, believe me, it's not going to happen, believe me.
OK, so.
It used to hearing these you can get used to seeing them yourself.
But keep in mind, these are kind of informal, right?
The more casual friends, family, you can speak like this.
But I wouldn't really.
Do this when you're around your boss or maybe co-workers or something that.
And the last example shoot I got to go to.
He later got to go now, you later.
So here we have that have got to go.
I got to.
To have got to better it.
I got to go now.
And also, we shall see you later.
Yeah, it is for you.
See you later.
So get used to hearing these informal expressions and it will make understanding and listening much
better.