Lindsay I have a question for you okay have you made good on any promises lately
have I made good I always make good on my promises Aubry I mean come on I'd like to hope that that's
the type of person you are guys this is such a native expression to make good on something means
that you said your you would do something and then you do it right you follow through you keep your
promise but we often we won't say do you keep your promises we often say it this way do you make good
on your promises yeah what I've realized over the years you know living with a partner I need
to make good on the little things that I promise I'll do right I take out the trash or things I
say I'm going to do I need to put extra focus on making sure I actually do those right absolutely
it means a lot to those we love it shows them we care about them when we actually follow through
when we make good on what we said we do that's how it is with my children I definitely if I tell
them I'm going to do something oh they remember they're like oh yeah you said you would do this
this oh yes I did okay I'm gonna make good on that promise we're going to do it right what about you
Aubrey is there anything that you've recently promised to your family or your kids yes we
had to get them flu and coveted shots the other day and we told them if no one screams or cries
because that happens a lot when there are shots right that we would take everyone to ice cream
and then we didn't have enough time after we were like oh we can't we can't do it we have to get you
to karate actually they had a karate class oh no and they were adamant they're like we will be late
to karate we are going to ice cream now and we're like okay we're gonna make good on that promise
you're gonna be late we're going to ice cream I love that that's so funny it is important to make
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share the love so what are we getting into today Aubry well today we are making good on a promise
to teach about would have right this is we have told you previously in previous episodes okay we
had a question that was sort of multi-part a lot to cover in one episode so we've broken it up into
a few episodes and this isn't grammar that you want to learn from a textbook we make it simple
easy and fun so we're gonna break this down today in a fun way so that you are clear on how to use
would have in English so good I'm excited well where can we get started today then Aubrey what
can we do so quick shout out to Julie Tang we're finally getting to the last part of her question
she was asking about future perfect and then she said I see we use will when do we use wood so
we're like okay now we're diving into that yes and we want to make sure you don't miss that previous
episode when we talked about future perfect with will have that was episode 1919 so be sure to go
back and check that out if you missed it yes and by the way guys if you have a great question if
you have a really good detailed question send it in to Aubry at allearsenglish.com Aubrey could
you spell your name yes it's a u b as in boy r-e-y I have to say the b as in boy sometimes
because there's a common name in English and many languages Audrey so I often get called Audrey with
it right as a dog so I always say b as in boy so we want to take your questions guys send them in
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other listeners have that question too so send them in yes I love it all right let's get into
the nitty-gritty here Aubry let's get into it alright so we use would have two ways the first
is a little less common but we'll share it it's the past tense of will will have so we use this
to talk about what usually would have happened by a certain time okay so for example I called
at 8am because I knew he would have woken by then or woken up I would say woken up but yeah I would
have woken by then that's true we often natives will say wake up woken up instead of just awake
or awaken this is a tricky word we should do a whole episode about wake up and awaken and woke up
we actually that'd be a great episode idea let's do it next time I love it what about I'm curious
about this sentence are you the type Lindsay that would call someone early in the morning and do you
turn on do not disturb at night so that no one bothers you until you wake up I do my phone goes
on to do not disturb at 10 pm but I don't know what would be considered early yeah I try to avoid
calling anyone before 9 A.M really for everyone I'm up at six a.m so like why isn't everyone awake
right now yeah right what's early and we have to think about time zones if we're living abroad
we're living in Europe and we're calling someone in the US and becomes more complicated right Aubry
yes I remember when I was living in Belgium as a nanny I accidentally called my mom once at like
2 A.M her time yeah I'm sure you'd think about the time difference she's all sleepily groggly
what's what's wrong why are you calling me in the middle of the night oh sorry it's 4pm here I love
it I love it so do we have a sample sentence here yeah so another example is to say like it was 10
a.m mom would have downed three cups of coffee by now that's a fun verb downed to just mean drink
mom would have a drunk three cups of coffee by now right we often use this downed to avoid saying the
word drunk I think yeah we've talked about this on the podcast before how native speakers don't
always feel 100 confident in the three forms of drink drink drunk and also the word drunk means to
be inebriated so I think we have something weird about using drunk in the third form what do you
think I remember I was teaching a student who said you know we have drink I'm like oh it would be we
have drunk that's the past participle and they're like I'm not gonna say that because it makes it
sound like I've been drinking beer I'm like okay I get it I had downed three cups of water exactly
I love it so down and come up with other creative ways you know that would be a great episode idea
which our listeners should hit follow for right now another episode on alternative ways to say
drink in the third form I love that let's go back into this we often do that as native speakers we
circumvent which means to find a way around a word that we don't want to say or when you're
learning a language a word that you don't know you don't remember right you circumvent it paraphrase
find a different way to say it absolutely and this is an important skill to have in another
language you know because I'm learning Spanish I just took a trip to Argentina you know I didn't
have every word but I could always find a way to go around that word and explain the situation it
actually really expands your vocabulary in other ways Aubry absolutely and we do that with this
grammar form we often circumvent it because maybe we're not positive about the grammar so we'll use
past tense and rephrase it you might say like I call that 8 AM because because I knew he'd be
awake by then so It's Tricky there are multiple ways to say something both are correct but when
it comes to would have it's a little harder because you have to remember the past participle
so sometimes we avoid it entirely yes I love it okay let's get into number two talking about the
third conditional Aubrey can you get us started here yes this is the main way we use would have
to talk about something that did not happen in the past but could have if the situation were a little
bit different and this is a very common mistake for native English speakers that the construction
here we make mistakes with it so you're probably going to hear it incurate depending on someone's
Regional dialect you may hear mistakes with this oh interesting interesting okay so it tells us
that native speakers aren't always necessarily studying the grammar books right they're focusing
on connecting right exactly right but yeah all grammarians there are common grammar errors that
are accepted in a lot of regional dialects a really good example is to say I'm good instead
of I'm well right I should ask how you are right we all do it it's a very accepted mistake yeah but
here at dollars English you know we're going to teach you the correct grammatical format
as much as we possibly can and then we'll let you know if it's okay I think you know I think if you
know in this case of this past perfect I think or the third conditional rather I think if you
know the correct way you should say the correct way like absolutely you know what I mean why
it's not accepted for everyone in every Regional dialect so depending on where you are in a lot of
places maybe in the east in England it will sound very wrong and it sort of flags it sounds almost
a little uneducated too yeah I agree just you know it just sounds like a mistake so this one's
important that's why we're teaching you today so let's talk about how the third conditional
is formed to make sure you guys are clear on how to use it exactly so let's get here's one example
Aubry if you had asked me to be there I would have come yes so let's dive into how we're making that
sentence right to make a sentence in the third conditional we use if plus the past perfect and
then would have or wouldn't have with the past participle so if you look at that sentence right
if you had asked me we have past perfect there had asked yeah then after the comma I would have
come right yes I love this it's a it's really pretty simple once you break it down and look
at the grammar but the mistake natives make is to not use past perfect and they'll say would
have both times you might hear someone say if you would have asked me to be there I would have come
and no mistake you're going to hear it I hear it a lot where I live in the west it's much more common
maybe not where you live as much Lindsay that's so interesting the West versus East Coast thing
because we have so we do have so much movement you know east to west now in the in the U.S right
so much migration uh that people are basically certain Western cities are hot now Arizona is
pretty hot now so I think a lot of people are moving from the east coast to the West Coast
so I wonder if that'll change in some way I'm not sure change or maybe they will all move here and
adjust they're like well everyone says it this way that's how I hear it they don't even think about
it and they'll start making the mistake I don't know which will win out in the right grammar or
the mistake right in the meantime we'll know and again this is not exactly a connection piece right
this is a little bit different you do want to you don't want to say it correctly you do want
to say it correctly especially if we think about those more formal situations like a job interview
right yeah meeting a new co-worker where you don't know where they were raised they're likely going
to recognize what is the correct grammar so you do want it to do this correctly exactly so what about
this neck did we already say the next example we have another example okay if you had told
me about the party I wouldn't have missed it so you see that past perfect if you had told me and
then we have would have or would not have missed it yeah and I think this could be I'm glad that
we're clearing this up today because I know that our listeners have have learned these in their
textbooks it's in the back of every textbook these grammar tables we know we've taught them
in classes but then if you go live in the states and you hear people making the mistake or you're
consuming media you might be quite confused right and why you might hear this why am I hearing this
wrong a lot and you will also hear it on podcasts on reality TV especially right news broadcasts
they're trying to use correct grammar but when it's just regular people in their lives then you
hear these mistakes interesting interesting I love it I love it okay so what else do we need
to know here well I think it's important to point out how useful this grammar form is in business
English if you are debriefing about a meeting or talking about goals we are often discussing how to
improve and what we would have done differently so let's do a role play in a business setting
using this third conditional so you guys can hear how it's used all right let's do this role
play so here we go again debriefing about a lost account so important to be able to do absolutely
well if the sales call had gone better I think we would have landed that account I agree if we had
eliminated a few slides that were less pertinent our message would have been clearer definitely
also it would have been more effective if we had emphasized the long-term savings our software
can provide nice so we have some great use of the third conditional here and a bonus word pertinent
which is interesting it looks like it should be pronounced pertinent but we really don't we use
that glottal stop and say pertinent pertinent and we talk about those glottal stops a lot on
our live group classes Aubry I love in our live group classes how we have a whole section where
we go through things like Lotto stops very specific pronunciation points and we have
our students repeat throughout the class that is fantastic so useful to know why why something is
pronounced a certain way and then immediately be able to practice it absolutely exactly yeah
so good and this you know this is kind of a Monday Morning Quarterback kind of conversation isn't it
Aubry here the rule y'all looking into okay what do we do wrong if we had done this we've had a
couple of these conversations recently at all ears English right in every company in every business
you have these discussions like that could have gone better what should we have done differently
yeah and I think for our listeners if you you know if you're in a business setting you need
to participate in those conversations so that it because you know it's important to make a change
for next time right so the more you participate you put yourself on the hook to improve for next
time so you're not still making the same mistakes right absolutely so let's go through how we used
this grammar here first Lindsay said if the sales call had gone better so there's the past perfect
I think we would have landed and notice we often use a contraction here like she said I think we
would have landed that account even in a business very formal conversation we're still going to use
that contraction just to save time exactly and in the next piece we're just flipping the order
right so if we had eliminated a few a few slides actually we're not flipping the order if we had
this perfect first again same password first exactly if we had eliminated a few slides that
were less pertinent our message like relevant relatable right I love that word it's a great
bonus for today it'll be in the app too I'm sure for sure our message would have been clear and I
would say too I would use one of there too right instead you're always trying to save time so
almost always it's going to be that contraction and you you guys listening should also use that
contraction if ever you're saying would have smush it together and say would have yes for
sure and what would be the last did we use it in the last sentence too yes what did I say we
did flip it first we have it would have been more effective right so you have that would have first
and then after if we had emphasized so that's a good point that it doesn't have to be past perfect
first it's like what is on in which clause you're going to have past perfect in one and then would
have with that third conditional in the other yeah I love that we're getting into grammar here guys
in 2023 we want to get more into your grammar questions right right so send us especially
your grammar questions if you have really high level grammar issues or problems we are here
to help you solve those what's the takeaway for our listeners today Aubry what do you think yes
if you guys find yourself avoiding would have in the past you're not alone right natives do it all
the time I think they recognize I might be making a mistake with this but the third conditional is
so useful especially in business English so you want to with today's tips you can be comfortable
using it yes I love it guys hit follow on all ears English if you love this podcast and send
us your grammar questions so we can go deeper into these high level topics to really refine
your English for connection so good absolutely awesome Lindsay fun conversation you know I
love grammar always always I'll talk to you very soon Aubrey have a good one you too see ya bye
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