All right, in this grammar refresh, we'll take a look at something called the second condition.
Now in English, we have different types of conditions.
There, type type one, two, three, mixed conditionals will get practice using all of them, but here
we're looking specifically.
At the second condition at 2:00, this is used to talk about a hypothetical situation and hypothetical
means something that hasn't happened and you're just imagining if it did happen, what kind of thing
would you do?
This is hypothetical situations now in this second condition, because it is hypothetical.
We're going to use the phrase, if I were you.
I would.
And then you say what it is that you would do, and so you're expressing your own opinion or your own
advice about this situation now, because this is hypothetical.
We're going to use the word form of the verb to be word w, e, r, e, and it doesn't matter if we're
talking in first person or third person, it's always going to be we're we're not going to change it
to once.
This is because it is hypothetical.
So we're using this in a hypothetical situation, but we always keep it as were if I were not if I was
right, you would think change was.
But again, because this is a imaginary situation hypothetical we're going to use were even with with
ah, if I were you, not if I was you.
And so that's the phrase we're using it.
If I were you I would do.
And then you say what you would do.
So let's look at our examples.
You can see how this works.
The first example is if I were you, I wouldn't buy this two hundred dollar watch.
And so this is a hypothetical situation.
The person is saying if I were you.
And so that means, you know, if I was in your situation.
And I was doing exactly what you're doing right now.
I wouldn't buy this two hundred dollar watch.
And so you're kind of giving your opinion, your advice.
The next example sentence, if I were you, I would definitely buy one more chair.
So again, if I were you.
So you're putting yourself into that person's.
Situation.
If I were you, I would definitely buy one more chair.
I would definitely buy one more chair.
In this grammar refresh, we're going to take a look again at these informal interactions and here we're
focusing on these informal verb contraction.
And again, these types of contractions are mainly used only for speaking.
So, you know, the writing a letter, you're writing a paper at school or at work.
You don't want to use these contractions and write them out mainly for speaking.
Now, the words we're going to look at are very common in formal contractions, and these are the verbs
want to.
I've got to.
And going to it, so let's look at each one in its contraction, one, two.
So I want to.
And just two, one, and so I want to or I want to, so, you know, if you hear that very fast, I
want to.
And you've never been exposed to these types of contractions, maybe you wouldn't understand.
So these are very useful to get to know.
So I want to becomes.
I want to.
The next one have got to be comes, got to.
I have got to or I got to.
You can see how it's much easier and quicker to say, but for someone learning English, if they hear
that for the first time, if you hear I got a.
You're not going to know the person I have got two very different sounding.
And the last example we're using is going to and going to becomes gun, oh, I'm going to because I
am going to.
It's a one more time, one to one, I've got to get going to them.
So, again, these are for speaking purposes only.
Let's look at these example sentences so you can hear them in a full sentence.
The first one is they don't want to give me a 10 percent raise since I've only worked here for three
years.
Slow down, they don't want to give me a 10 percent raise, since I've only worked here for three years,
they don't want to give me they don't want to give me.
So, again, this one is for want to know, really, we're saying they don't want to give me they don't
want to give me, but you can see when they're speaking, that's not very easy to get out of your mouth.
They don't want to give me much easier to say.
They don't want to give me.
The next example, you're not going to cut down your expenses by buying a third car.
They're not going to cut down your expenses by buying a third car know in this sentence.
You can see we're using Gunar, you you're not going to cut down your expenses.
You're not going to cut down your expenses.
Now, this is shortened from you're not going to tell you expect you're not going to cut down your expenses,
turns into you're not going to cut down your expenses.
And the last example sentence.
I got to go, I'm meeting up with Claire in half an hour.
I got to go and meeting up with Claire in half an hour.
We're getting here now, we're using Guarda or have got to oh, if we didn't contract it, it would
be I have got to go.
I'm meeting up with Claire in half an hour versus I got to go.
I have got to go.
I got to go much quicker, much more casual.
And if you use these types of informal contractions, you'll sound much more natural and like a native
English speaker.