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All right, in this grammar refresh, we'll take a look at something called the second condition.

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Now in English, we have different types of conditions.

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There, type type one, two, three, mixed conditionals will get practice using all of them, but here

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we're looking specifically.

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At the second condition at 2:00, this is used to talk about a hypothetical situation and hypothetical

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means something that hasn't happened and you're just imagining if it did happen, what kind of thing

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would you do?

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This is hypothetical situations now in this second condition, because it is hypothetical.

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We're going to use the phrase, if I were you.

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I would.

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And then you say what it is that you would do, and so you're expressing your own opinion or your own

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advice about this situation now, because this is hypothetical.

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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

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talking in first person or third person, it's always going to be we're we're not going to change it

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to once.

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This is because it is hypothetical.

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So we're using this in a hypothetical situation, but we always keep it as were if I were not if I was

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right, you would think change was.

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But again, because this is a imaginary situation hypothetical we're going to use were even with with

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ah, if I were you, not if I was you.

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And so that's the phrase we're using it.

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If I were you I would do.

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And then you say what you would do.

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So let's look at our examples.

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You can see how this works.

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The first example is if I were you, I wouldn't buy this two hundred dollar watch.

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And so this is a hypothetical situation.

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The person is saying if I were you.

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And so that means, you know, if I was in your situation.

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And I was doing exactly what you're doing right now.

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I wouldn't buy this two hundred dollar watch.

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And so you're kind of giving your opinion, your advice.

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The next example sentence, if I were you, I would definitely buy one more chair.

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So again, if I were you.

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So you're putting yourself into that person's.

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Situation.

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If I were you, I would definitely buy one more chair.

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I would definitely buy one more chair.

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In this grammar refresh, we're going to take a look again at these informal interactions and here we're

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focusing on these informal verb contraction.

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And again, these types of contractions are mainly used only for speaking.

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So, you know, the writing a letter, you're writing a paper at school or at work.

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You don't want to use these contractions and write them out mainly for speaking.

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Now, the words we're going to look at are very common in formal contractions, and these are the verbs

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want to.

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I've got to.

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And going to it, so let's look at each one in its contraction, one, two.

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So I want to.

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And just two, one, and so I want to or I want to, so, you know, if you hear that very fast, I

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want to.

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And you've never been exposed to these types of contractions, maybe you wouldn't understand.

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So these are very useful to get to know.

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So I want to becomes.

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I want to.

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The next one have got to be comes, got to.

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I have got to or I got to.

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You can see how it's much easier and quicker to say, but for someone learning English, if they hear

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that for the first time, if you hear I got a.

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You're not going to know the person I have got two very different sounding.

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And the last example we're using is going to and going to becomes gun, oh, I'm going to because I

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am going to.

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It's a one more time, one to one, I've got to get going to them.

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So, again, these are for speaking purposes only.

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Let's look at these example sentences so you can hear them in a full sentence.

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The first one is they don't want to give me a 10 percent raise since I've only worked here for three

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years.

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Slow down, they don't want to give me a 10 percent raise, since I've only worked here for three years,

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they don't want to give me they don't want to give me.

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So, again, this one is for want to know, really, we're saying they don't want to give me they don't

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want to give me, but you can see when they're speaking, that's not very easy to get out of your mouth.

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They don't want to give me much easier to say.

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They don't want to give me.

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They don't want to give me.

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The next example, you're not going to cut down your expenses by buying a third car.

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They're not going to cut down your expenses by buying a third car know in this sentence.

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You can see we're using Gunar, you you're not going to cut down your expenses.

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You're not going to cut down your expenses.

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Now, this is shortened from you're not going to tell you expect you're not going to cut down your expenses,

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turns into you're not going to cut down your expenses.

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And the last example sentence.

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I got to go, I'm meeting up with Claire in half an hour.

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I got to go and meeting up with Claire in half an hour.

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We're getting here now, we're using Guarda or have got to oh, if we didn't contract it, it would

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be I have got to go.

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I'm meeting up with Claire in half an hour versus I got to go.

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I have got to go.

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I got to go much quicker, much more casual.

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And if you use these types of informal contractions, you'll sound much more natural and like a native

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English speaker.