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In this grammar refresh, we're going to take a look at something called informal contraction.

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Now, these informal contractions are contractions that we really only use in spoken English.

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You're never going to really write these.

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In any type of academic or formal writing, the only time you might write this is if you're writing

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maybe dialogue and you're trying to write exactly what someone said, but you're not going to really

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use this in your writing.

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These are more for speaking purposes.

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And these contractions, when you do write them, there's no apostrophes.

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So they're not likely, although the formal contractions we've seen, you know, don't add wouldn't

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those are more formal.

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Those are OK to include in your writing.

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But these are informal contractions.

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These are just for speaking.

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And they make you sound more like a native English speaker.

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They make your English sound more natural.

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But let's look at a few.

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We have the phrase, what are you doing?

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You can ask someone, what are you doing?

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But a lot of times if you say it like that, what are you doing?

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It sounds.

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Unusual, right, doesn't sound natural, so a lot of times native speakers will slow it altogether.

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What you're doing right, what you're doing.

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So what are you becomes watcha there and then doing and even sometimes doing well, drop the gee doing

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what you're doing.

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So it's good to get used to hearing this because so you hear it for the first time.

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You might have no idea what the person is saying, what you're doing, you don't know that's what are

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you doing it.

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But it's very common what you do or what are you doing it slurred together.

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Another common one is let me see if you take let me and we put it together real fast and it gets.

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Let me let me see.

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Let me see.

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Let me see.

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Next one, I don't know if you can bring that together and make it, I don't know, but I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Donna, Donna, I don't know, a very fast.

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I was together, I don't know.

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Next one.

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What about you?

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What about you?

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I to say it like that, but you want to make it more casual.

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What about you?

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What about you?

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And that last one, very casual, you wouldn't say it to your boss or anything, but does exist.

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In this grammar refresh, we're going to continue looking at informal.

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Expressions that we only use with speaking.

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Is are these informal contractions?

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You're not going to write these ever, but you do use them for speaking.

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Here, we're going to take a look at some very common ones that have to do with the phrases want to

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have got to and going to.

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Want to I've got to go into.

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So let's look at the examples to see this, the first one, I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.

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I don't want to.

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Awana.

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Is from want to you can say, I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip, but you can see how it takes

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me more time, right?

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I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.

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And if you're not used to speak in English, actually quite difficult to get all those words in, I

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don't want to leave a 20 percent.

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But you can make it easier.

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I don't want to leave a 20 percent tip.

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I don't want to want to I don't want to leave the one who is.

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The next example.

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It's not going to happen, believe me, it's not going to happen here, we have gone.

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It's not going to.

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China is.

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Going to right, it's not going to happen, believe me, it's not going to happen, believe me.

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OK, so.

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It used to hearing these you can get used to seeing them yourself.

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But keep in mind, these are kind of informal, right?

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The more casual friends, family, you can speak like this.

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But I wouldn't really.

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Do this when you're around your boss or maybe co-workers or something that.

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And the last example shoot I got to go to.

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He later got to go now, you later.

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So here we have that have got to go.

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I got to.

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To have got to better it.

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I got to go now.

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And also, we shall see you later.

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Yeah, it is for you.

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See you later.

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So get used to hearing these informal expressions and it will make understanding and listening much

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better.