How is it going? Need to wear this because I don't wanna get burnt and Kel stole my hat today so,
See if I can remember which way to turn this key to open the
Door here. I just went out and bought some coals and I actually filmed this video while I was doing that
But it didn't turn out very good. I was rambling
And had to think too much
So, I thought I would do it again. Anyway, I swear you, guys, probably think that it's training to have Barbies every other day
But to be honest, I am going a bit crazy at the moment
With barbecues because I'm trying to learn
how to cook on them a little bit better, right? You can always improve
Practice makes perfect
Anyway, so I went out and bought some of these coals because I've ran out as you can see this empty bag back here
I've got some yellow ones here. These are easy light
So, hopefully they're gonna make my life a little easier
A little quicker to light this Barbie and the other ones here are just the normal coals. So,
gonna give this a clean
There she is clean and
Then I've got some steak and some other meat that needs to be cooked up. Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about elisions
Now the other day we were having a chat about how native English speakers often drop articles
They drop articles when they are writing informal messages, right? They're writing on Facebook. They're writing emails to other colleagues
And so, they often drop words like THE in front of nouns when the noun is obvious
it's obvious what you guys are talking about, right? Clean house, you know, I might send that to my mum or
Fed, you could say fed the dogs, but she might just say fed dogs? As in have you fed the dogs?
Right? and so there's actually quite a bit of other elisions that are going on there and that we can use
But also in spoken speech so, that's sort of the point of today's video
I want to talk about how when speaking informally with people
you can drop pronouns and verbs at the start of
Sentences. I look like an idiot
So, all right. I'm gonna see if I can I'll sit down and do this video and then we'll get cooking
Alright. So, ever noticed how English speak is quite often drop
Verbs and pronouns at the starts of sentences when they're talking informally with other people? Okay, so, this is gonna happen with friends, with family
With colleagues, with acquaintances. It's usually just gonna happen in informal situations, right?
I would say this to strangers if it's an informal situation
If I am publicly speaking or if I am
Writing a very formal letter or speaking to the Queen, the president, the Prime Minister. I will probably
naturally avoid trying to use as many of these elisions and
Reducing sentences. I will just say the entire sentence. I probably won't even contract
Different auxiliary verbs and modal verbs onto nouns. I will just say everything really, really well
pronounced very politely
Ok? The more contracted it gets, the faster it gets, but the more informal it gets when speaking with people
ok? So, I do this all the
Time. Ever notice how I do this all the time? That's an example right there. Have you ever
Noticed how I do this all the time? Ever notice how I do this all the time?
So, you can do this with auxiliary verbs like to have
have you
I have, you can do it with those, you can do it with DO, do and does
Do you? Do you want to go to the beach? Wanna go to the beach?
Do you want to go to the beach? Want to go to the beach? and you can do it with to be
Are you going to be here later? You're gonna be here later? gonna be here later?
so, you can do it with auxiliary verbs to be, to do, and to have.
You can either get rid of that verb at the front of a question or a sentence or you can also get rid of the
Pronoun. Ok? So,
See if you can notice how I'm doing it with these sentences. Do you want to go to the beach, right? That's the full sentence
You wanna go to the beach later?
You wanna go to the beach later? Notice the inflection there because it's a question. I'm actually
Alighting that sentence. I'm getting rid of a word at the start. It's not a statement
You want to go to the beach later?
Do you want to go to the beach later, right? Question mark
You want to go to the beach later? And I can further elide that sentence
I can remove you and just say wanna go to the beach later?
Wanna go to the beach later, do you
Want to go to the beach later? I could say are you going to be here tonight?
Are you gonna be here tonight?
You gonna be here tonight?
Gonna be here tonight?
So, you can, step-by-step, reduce those two words at the start
You can get rid of the verb, the very first word there in an inverted question and you can get rid of the noun as
Well, if you get rid of that verb too, ok?, Are you gonna be here tonight?
You gonna be here tonight? Gonna be here tonight? So, it's just obvious, right?
It's obvious what you're trying to say. The last one would be using have, ok? Have you seen this film?
You seen this film?
Seen this film?
So, you can keep dropping those words and the more you do that the more it's faster to say
and the more natural you're gonna sound when speaking with native speakers because that's what we do all the
Time because we're trying to just get the message across as quickly as possible
now there was one last thing that I wanted to mention what was it?
I really need to write a script for these episodes
That's what you get for winging it.
Ok! Now I remembered! How do you know? So, you might be thinking how do I know what the tense is?
How do I know if they're talking about the past the present the future if they're removing the auxiliary verb?
Right? The trick here is the conjugation of the primary verb in the sentence
So, if I say to you you're going to work later?
you can hear
Going, right? So, you know it needs to be with to be. Are you going to work later?
It's never gonna be do you going have you going so that's how we work it out?
You seen this film see this film
You know that it is have you seen this film because you've got the past participle
Seen, it's not seeing, it's not see it's see so, you can infer, you can work out what that auxiliary verb is
And understand the question
Ok?
so that is why we can drop those auxiliary verbs because of the
Conjugation of the verbs inside, the primary verbs inside that phrase and we still need those verbs,ok, ok? And the last example would be
Want something from the shops?
Want something from the shops? You want something from the shops? What do you think that verb is there at the start?
Do you want something from the shops? And you know that because want is there in the infinitive. Do you want
something from the shops?
Are you
Having some friends over tonight? Having some friends over tonight? Having, are you having?
Been to the beach recently? Have you been to the beach
Recently? So there you go, guys. I hope that helps. I hope that helps!
I hope that gives you a hint, it gives you some tricks and tips for how to sound more like a native speaker
Especially in informal English we do this all the time
I really, really encourage you guys to go out there and do this when speaking with friends or family
And just wanting to sound more natural, more native like when you speak English and to be able to speak quicker
Right? So, you can do this in texts. You can do this in speaking,
It doesn't matter in this case as opposed to the article case where that is
Just writing, this can be speaking and it can also be in writing as well when communicating with
Someone. Alright, so I'm gonna get this barbie on the way. I hope you guys have an amazing day
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And also make sure that you put an example sentence
Using this kind of elision down below in a comment practice it right now. Ok, guys?
Anyway, I'm off and I'll chat to you soon. See ya!
Tong's
Let's see how this barbie is
Going I think it's almost ready
almost ready
You know, it's ready when the
Smoke stopped coming out, when everything's stopped burning
fingers crossed, fingers crossed the moment of truth
Oh, beautiful! Look at that! Alll those coals are nice and gray
That means that she is ready to have some meat to put on top. But first I need to put the
the grills on put this on top
Pretty hot and then I need to keep them a bit of a clean so,
Shove them over the middle there
Got my little cleaning implement, give them a clean and then I'll chuck the meat on
Man, I'll tell you what, another Pepsi
I'm gagging for a beer. Alright, that's a good slang term for you
if you say gagging for something it made you really really want that thing to gag is to
But I guess the idea is that you're so excited you're gagging
Because you want that thing, so you'll hear that quite often in informal English
I'm really gagging for a beer because at the moment obviously Kel's pregnant and
For the the sake of
Consolidated I said that I wouldn't drink at least not too much while she was pregnant because she likes beer and wine as well
So I think I've only had beer and wine 1 or 2 times since she's been pregnant
It's gonna be a tough nine months. Hmm.
All right, so we've got
kangaroo here you can get kangaroo at the
Supermarkets quite often, you'll find them all over the place, some paddy's here. They need to be eaten in a few days and we have
Rump steak. Boom!
So, I think that bit there, this bit here is the usual Picanha bit and that's the rest here
So, this is kind of like a porterhouse steak really but yeah gonna cook those up today