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Hey, Lindsay, how are you today?
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Hey, Aubrey, I'm feeling good today.
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How are you?
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How's everything?
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I am great.
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I have a question for you.
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All right.
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What is something you should have done last week, but didn't get to?
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Oh my gosh.
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There's always something, right?
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There's a lot of work things.
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A lot of emails I have not returned that people are waiting and I went on vacation last week.
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So that's probably not so good, but I will get to it eventually, right?
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Right.
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Exactly.
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We all have this something we should have done last week, something on our to -do list.
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We weren't able to get to it.
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But what's interesting is how would that be different if I had said, what's something you could have done last week,
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but didn't get to, or what's something you must have that we wouldn't even say it that way, right?
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These modals really change the question, right?
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It really does.
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When you say what's something you could have done, it's more like it would have been voluntary.
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It would have been an optional thing.
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Whereas should have returned those emails.
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Those people are waiting to hear back.
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Yes.
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It's very different, right?
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Kind of very optional, not something on your to -do list of things that have to get done.
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Yeah.
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So we got a great question about this on YouTube about the differences between some of these modals.
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Do you want to read that question for us, Lindsay?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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This is from Cypher Ahmad Sendiki, 1871.
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Great handle there.
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Dears, would you talk Talk about the differences between could have, should have, and must have.
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Such a great question, right?
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These are all modal verbs that are used to make guesses, express regret, or talk about past possibilities.
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And it really does change.
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Like the feeling of what you're asking
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or the meaning of what you're saying changes a lot depending on which one you use.
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Massively.
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So we're going to make sure we clear this up for our listeners today.
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And I'm sure many of our listeners have the same question, right?
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Are wondering the same thing.
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Yes.
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All right.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I love that.
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I love hearing that feedback from students for sure.
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Yeah.
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So let's share really quick right off the top here, the grammar of this for each of these, the grammar structure is the same.
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So that helps at least you have this modal either could, should, or must, and then they're all structured the same.
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After that, you're going to have the word have, and then the past participle, right?
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So something you should have done, must have done, would have all of the past participle will be different for every verb depending on what you're talking about
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but the structure is always the same yes perfect so keep
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that in mind guys as we go through all three of these it's always the same structure
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so that offers a little bit of i don't know it's a little calming to know
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that i think
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so right the grammar is a little easier here it's what's tricky is the context the meaning
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which one should you choose depending on what you want to say exactly all All right.
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So should we go into could have Aubrey first?
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The very first one.
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Okay.
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So this is talking about past possibilities, something you could have done, right?
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So Aubrey, tell us more about this.
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Yeah.
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So you're going to use it when you think something was possible, but you aren't sure.
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So for example, she could have taken the earlier train, right?
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So we're saying like, I could have done that.
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We think that was a possibility, right?
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This could have happened, but you can't be sure with could have.
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Otherwise you would use a different modal that expresses more surety, more certainty.
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Right.
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Right.
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She could have taken the earlier train.
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They could have missed our message.
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Right.
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They like basically saying another way to say this would be, they might have missed our message.
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Exactly.
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Same meaning, right?
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You're, you're saying that something was a possibility.
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You don't know for sure you're giving a possibility.
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And we use this a lot when something has gone wrong
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or something hasn't worked out like we thought it would we're saying what might have been what could have been
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but we don't know for sure yes
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or it could have been a misunderstanding right maybe the person said something
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and you misunderstood them or they didn't mean to say it in the way
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that that you received it or something like
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that right this i use a lot if
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if someone's sharing with me something that happened with a friend
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and the friend's response doesn't make sense from what I know about them, right?
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You're seeing this disconnect.
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And so this might be how you, instead of saying, uh, that is terrible.
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They're a terrible person.
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You might say something like this.
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Maybe it was a misunderstanding or it could have been a misunderstanding.
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You're trying to give the other person grace
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because what you're hearing about them doesn't match up with what you know about them.
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Yes.
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And also, uh, give the person the benefit of the doubt is what you're doing here.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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I think that's a really good way to go through life you know you just give people the benefit of the doubt, um, and assume things are just a misunderstanding.
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I love it.
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It's going to solve, or it's going to prevent a lot of problems if you do that, because often when we assume the worst, we're wrong, right?
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We turn, we end up apologizing.
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We're like, you know what?
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I shouldn't have believed that about you.
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I shouldn't have assumed that about you without knowing for sure.
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And then we feel like a jerk, right?
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Because our mind was going in that direction yeah
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so it's a good way to go through a connection right
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but we use this could have another way
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and it's about missed opportunities right if someone had the ability
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or opportunity to do something
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but didn't we'll use this as well for example she could have won the race
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if she hadn't gotten injured
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or you could have helped you could have asked me for help right
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if you were confused didn't know what to do you could
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have asked me for help yeah we do this a lot right when something goes wrong after the fact, we will sometimes think about like,
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what could have happened that would have improved the situation.
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And we might say that to someone like, you could have done this, you could have done that.
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Sometimes that's not the advice we want to get, what we could have done differently.
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I know, what a bummer, right?
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Sometimes we should avoid telling people what they could have done.
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Right, right, right, right.
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It can be, because you can't, at that point, you can't do much about it, right?
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Just for the future, right?
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Aubrey, how is, should have different.
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Yeah, this is similar, but this is used to talk about something that was the right thing to do, but didn't happen.
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It often expresses regret or criticism.
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So the difference here really is could have doesn't have that implication of that was the right thing to do.
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It's sort of just like a possibility, whereas should have means like this is what should have happened.
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Yeah.
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Like I said, I should have replied to some emails before I left for vacation right
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but I didn't right these this thing should have happened um
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I should have gone to bed earlier right I stayed up too late are you someone
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that stays up late watching Netflix Aubrey sometimes not usually I'm
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more of an early you know early to bed early to rise
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but every now and then sometimes on weekends I will
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and then the next morning
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if I have something early I'll say this oh I should
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have gone to bed earlier you feel the results right yeah or we should have left earlier, right?
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Maybe something happens, something goes wrong.
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You're like, hmm, we should have left an hour ago and we wouldn't have had to deal with this.
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Yes.
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There's always a moment in a party or if you're at a party
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or something or you're out and you know it's the right time to leave, but then sometimes you override your intuition.
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Do you ever do that?
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Is it, oh no, we should stay a little longer and like your partner opens and be another drink and you're like, ah, then you know later.
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I should have listened to that little voice in my head that knew better.
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It's so true.
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There's always a moment of clarity.
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Oh, so funny.
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Okay, Aubrey, we're moving on to must have.
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Tell us about this one.
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Yeah, this is a little different.
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This is when you are almost certain that something happened in the past because of some kind of evidence, right?
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So this isn't so much about like what could have happened, what should have happened.
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This is you have some more concrete evidence to able to say like it must have been
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that way this must have been the case yeah
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so for example she must have forgotten our meeting now the evidence is
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that you knew that you had a meeting scheduled
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and she didn't show up so we're assuming
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that this is definitely what happened she forgot the meeting right yeah it's interesting this really means
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that we have some kind of concrete reason to think
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that otherwise we could be saying she could have been she
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could have gotten stuck in traffic she could have woken up late
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but for some reason something's happened to give us some kind
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of evidence oh she must have forgotten all about it yes yes exactly
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or he must have left already because his car isn't there
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or isn't here yeah
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so we have evidence right well his car's gone he must have left already
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so it's when we see
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that evidence we're not going to say he could have left
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his car's not here we wouldn't say he should have left
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right this is where we have some kind of evidence
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so that's when we would say this must be the case he must have left yeah
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so quite different from the other two
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so we're going to see how they all come together into
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a little conversation aubry what is going on in this role play yeah
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so we are friends who were supposed to see each other at a birthday party last night
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but didn't so let's see what happened i'll start us out.
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All right.
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Where were you last night?
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We missed you at Jake's birthday party.
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Oh no, was that last night?
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I must have mixed up the dates.
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I should have called you when I saw you weren't there.
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I just assumed you couldn't make it.
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If I had remembered, I could have at least let Jake know I wouldn't be there.
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Oh, that's not good.
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Totally missed the party.
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Right.
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But this happens to all of us, right?
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This just happens to me.
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I'll mix up dates, I'll mix up times and you just miss it.
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And this is when we need these modals and you can see how, depending on what you're trying to say, it's, you have to choose the right one or you could cause confusion.
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Oh, for sure. For sure.
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Great.
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Let's go back through it.
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So what did we choose in terms of the first modal?
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I, you said, where were you last night?
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We missed you at Jake's birthday party.
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And I said, oh no, was that last night?
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I must have mixed up the dates.
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Why did I use must there?
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Yeah, this is interesting.
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So this is your reason, right?
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This is the evidence.
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You definitely could have say, I think I mixed up the dates or I mixed up the dates.
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We use must have here to sort of separate ourselves from the blame of something happening.
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I've noticed this and this is an interesting, very subtle nuance of English, right?
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Oh, I must have mixed up the dates.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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It's very subtle, right?
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But it is kind of separating yourself from the blame.
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I like that.
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I like that.
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Right.
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Just highlighting that it was a mistake.
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It was not intentional.
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It was an accident.
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Right.
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Like something was out of your control.
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I must have messed up, right?
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Mm -hmm.
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And then you said, I should have called you when I saw you weren't there, right I should have okay this is a regret right exactly
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right this is the right thing to have done I didn't do it
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because I didn't have all the information I just assumed you
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couldn't make it I didn't know you had forgotten had mixed up the date
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so now in hindsight I'm saying what I should have done
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oh I should have called you yes yes for sure
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and then I said
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if I had remembered I could have at least let Jake
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know I wouldn't be there right now I'm feeling bad
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that could so I had an option to let jake know
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that i wouldn't be there right this one is maybe the trickiest one to know
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when to use it right this is
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that past possibility it's dependent on you having more information like
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if i had known i was i was had the dates
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wrong i could have let him know something right this is
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more like this is not based on any evidence of what should have happened
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or what must have been the truth this is this very much more of like oh
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if things were different if these if I had known more, then things could have been different.
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Yes, completely.
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Love it.
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Great episode today.
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Real clear grammar episode.
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These are building blocks for important language when you get to the B2C1 level, guys.
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So do go out and try to use these as much as you can, right?
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Absolutely, right.
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And really be observant when you hear other people using these modals.
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Think about the context.
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Why were they choosing one or the other? they'll become more
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and more familiar so that they're just naturally coming up and you're able to use them correctly.
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This is the title of this episode is, are you giving fluency?
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We talked about this.
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It's giving phrase, right?
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Which is fun.
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New slang has become very popular.
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Definitely scroll up and check that one out if you missed it.
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Yeah.
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We had fun creating that episode, so I'm sure you'll have fun listening to it, guys.
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Go check it out.
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Aubrey, what is your final takeaway on this episode today?
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Where should we leave our listeners?
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I feel like there are so many connection moments that are possible
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and connections that can be hurt if we use the wrong modal, right?
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We talked about this a few times throughout the episode.
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You don't always want to tell someone what they should have done, right?
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Or what could have been different because sometimes it doesn't help if we can't go back and change it, right?
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Well, that's actually a really good point
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that we didn't talk about quite as much in the episode
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but going and reprimanding something someone by saying oh you should have done this you should have done
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that be careful there right you know i we've all been in
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that situation where someone tells us that
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and we're like thanks that's really helpful now
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that i can't go back yeah thanks but no thanks yeah exactly
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so play around with your words right it's okay to offer feedback
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and let people know what um like what what would have
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been better to have been to have done right it's important
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about ourselves about ourselves as well i should have done this i could have done
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that but to say it for someone else is usually not constructive it's not very helpful yeah right we can
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so we can get a little bit more wordsmithy here the way we choose our words especially at work right
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if you're in a management position you have to offer feedback
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you have to let people know the correct way to do things
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but we can choose words differently right instead saying like going forward let's do this next time it's
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so much better than that you should have done this
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which is much more blunt exactly you got it great episode
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today we'll see you very soon all right thanks lindsey see you next time okay take care bye
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “2705 - Could Have, Should Have or Must Have?”. Este vídeo tiene 312 frases y 3001 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:49. El hablante habla rápido, unas 203 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 50 de sus 312 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| depend verbo | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de) |
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| helpful adjetivo | /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/ | servicial, adyuvante |
| regret verbo | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ | lamentar, arrepentirse [de] |
| feedback sustantivo | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | valoración, comentario |
| listener sustantivo | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | oyente, escucha |
| naturally adverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente, a natura |
| concrete adjetivo | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | concreto |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | mientras que (locution) |
| vacation sustantivo | /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | vacaciones, vacación |
| differently adverbio | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | diferentemente |
| tricky adjetivo | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | dificultoso, chungo |
| optional adjetivo | /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/ | opcional |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| confused adjetivo | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | confundido |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| mix up verbo | revolver |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| stay up verbo | quedarse despierto, empalmar |
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| go out verbo | salir |
| mess up verbo | desbarajustar, desbarahustar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- We're like, you know what?
- Do you ever do that?
- Where were you last night?
- I, you said, where were you last night?
- Why did I use must there?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | if I have something early I'll say |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have not returned · We've had · has gone |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be really lined · was had · is not based |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 101 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, we're, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, optional /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scroll /skɹoʊl/, sling /ˈslɪŋ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, verb /vɝb/, solve /sɒlv/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, constructive /kənˈstɹʌktɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, observant /əbˈzɝvənt/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como depend, grammar, helpful.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.